This Beaujolais is 100% Gamay Noir, sourced from "Cru" vineyards surrounding the village of Morgon. Domaine bottled for Les Vins Georges DuBoeuf, the largest Vinegron in Beaujolais and the "father" of the Beaujolais Nouveau phenomenon.
This wine is a brilliant medium ruby color, with a garnet core. The bouquet offers nice aromas of peony flowers, raspberries, red currants, sour cherry, iodine, and wet stones. Smooth and bright on the attack, the wine shows nice acidity and solid tannic structure for a Beaujolais. Very accessible now, but with enough stuffing to cellar for several years. Generous flavors of cassis, currant, cranberry, and morello cherry surround a decidedly grapey-fruit core, with a pleasantly salty tang and the wet stones minerality providing nice contrast to the fruit. Finishes with a flourish of fruit and flowers braced by the fine, sweet tannin.
Seems like every time I re-visit my notes on a Cru Beaujolais, I regret the relative dirth of these wines in my regular "rotation". There would be an irreplaceable gap in my wine world without them. This bottling from DuBouef is a perrennial great value in the $10 range, and the 2007 definitely keeps the streak alive. Refreshingly medium-bodied, with great purity and modest alcohol, this is a wine for the table - to pair with everything from an alpine cheese fondue to pork tenderloin rubbed with provencal herbs. Or, a great match with your Thanksgiving turkey.
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