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It´s Beaujolais time

The weather is heating up! Its gonna be warm warm today! around 24c actually! and what´s better than a glass of cold Beaujolais in the garden for lunch?

When we visited Beaujolais we brought home some samples from some Fleurie producers that we had not heard of before.

Two have been already tasted (it was nice and warm last weekend u c)

"Madone" Fleurie 2006 by Lionel Despres €7 was  more "fullbodied" Beaujolais than normal ones without the sometimes quite sharp aftertaste you find in Fleurie wines. A definite P+
Apparantly the best Fleurie comes from the hillsides close to the Madone statue...

At Domaine Chignard they make a Fleurie called "Les Moriers" which is even more "fullbodied". We had the 2006 (should always drink Beaujolais young and slightly chilled) and it was in fact more burgundy like with smooth long lively well balanced taste. We missed the flowery Fleurie smell though...

We will back with more notes over the next few days.

   


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