1983 Devillaine Beaujolais

[Everett Bandman]

Had the Saint Amour Sunday night and the Moulin-a-Vent Monday night at Berns. The St Amour was light and ethereal while the MaV was darker and had that iron fist in a velvet glove feel. Both wonderfully aromatic. How Berns can sell these for $15 and open as many as they need to in order to find the perfect bottle amazes me.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Seriously, 32-year-old St-Amour?

 

[Arjun Mendiratta]

Apparently a Bern's year only counts for half (their cellars are at 46F or something like that).

 

[Kay Bixler]

Very cool.

 

[Everett Bandman]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Seriously, 32-year-old St-Amour?

Yup, Seriously and wonderful!

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Everett Bandman:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Seriously, 32-year-old St-Amour?

Yup, Seriously and wonderful!

Wow. Googling around, I guess Bern's has a bunch of it.

It's funny reading Frank Prial articles from then. He doesn't think much of Beaujolais but he does think you should lay down the $7 chablis.