Anybody with information on the 2015 vintage in Beaujolais?

I've heard much good, including favorable comparisons with 2009. But it's often difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, review wise, for the latest vintage.

Alas poor Joe, and his wonderful reviews.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
I've heard much good, including favorable comparisons with 2009. But it's often difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, review wise, for the latest vintage.

Alas poor Joe, and his wonderful reviews.
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Never having met him I can still feel your pain.

Re the wines I hear rumors; rich like 2009 but more acidity.
 
Seems like the adventurous and curious wine lover could do well to have a mix of both 2014 and 2015 in the cellar. Lots of healthy grapes in Beaujolais this year it seems, in stark contrast to the disaster that is Cote d'Or and Chablis. I've already started stocking up on Chablis 2014 (just a couple of cases so far), in anticipation of the 2015 not being my kind of Chablis vintage and 2016 being nothing at all.
 
Sadly, I am in the process of triaging Beaujolais out of my annual purchases. But I'm not sure monumental is what I'd seek in these wines.
 
had some antoine (related to julien) sunier 15 morgon today, absolutely delicious. very fresh. ripe, red fruit, but decent acid. easy drinking, but with some edge to it.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Sadly, I am in the process of triaging Beaujolais out of my annual purchases. But I'm not sure monumental is what I'd seek in these wines.
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Curious as to why you are doing this.

Personally, I'll buy the same stuff I usually do. I almost never skip a year, but I may either slim down the amounts, or cull some wines due to over-supply relative to consumption, but I haven't yet decided.
 
I'm kind of doing the same. Cheap prices have left me with a bit of an over-supply. Also, while I think the ones I own will age well, alot of them are sort of in a similar category to riesling where older is different but not necessarily better. Much to be said for the fresh and youthful showing.
 
We're in the opposite position. Our wine-consuming pattern has skewed more toward lighter wines of all colors. I've found it hard to keep enough Beaujolais in the cellar, so our purchasing has increased in recent years. Those older Bdx and CalCabs, OTOH, are languishing in the cellar these days...

Mark Lipton
 
I also buy almost no Beaujolais these days. I generally only open riesling and moscato d'asti at home due to Arnold's AFS and I have such limited storage that I've cut back on non-riesling purchases dramatically.

I certainly have enough red wine to last me for a while and am all too often tempted into breaking my buying hiatus.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Sadly, I am in the process of triaging Beaujolais out of my annual purchases. But I'm not sure monumental is what I'd seek in these wines.
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Curious as to why you are doing this.

Personally, I'll buy the same stuff I usually do. I almost never skip a year, but I may either slim down the amounts, or cull some wines due to over-supply relative to consumption, but I haven't yet decided.
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A life event has left me grossly overstocked, generally, while, at the same time, I'm drinking less wine during the week. So I'm just buying a few bottles of wines I really love - in red, mostly a few Burgundies, though I'm starting to see the light on older Piemont wines. Occhipini Frappato may make the cut too, based on the 2010 I opened a couple of weeks ago, which was very lovely.

Otoh, I'll probably end up making an exception for Foillard, and maybe Desvignes and Coudert.

Swing through some time and we'll crack a magnum of Tete Prestige 2005.
 
Didier Desvignes Brouilly Optimum 2015 is darkfruited, but with very fine cut and acidity. No plumpness here. Proudly boasting all of 13% alcohol on the label. Certainly no alcoholic heat here, whatever one may think of the thrustwortiness of labels in this regard.

If this is 2015 I will be buying more, particularly from the higher situated locations.
 
Picked up a couple '15s from Coudert:

2015 Fleurie Cuvee Christal has lots of color and smells very primary, grapey, pure and fresh. It has serious weight but is still quite easy to gulp down and is balanced by bright acidity. Good choice for a sweltering summer night. Drink. 94 pts.

2015 Clos de la Roilette Cuvee Tardive, well, at first the alcohol hangs on this wine like an oversized suit but by the time dinner hits the table it is deep and earthy gamay, as usual. Big and dry with fine tannin, a real middle and endless persistence. Holds up well over three days. Needs a year to settle down. Hold. 94 pts.

No doubt these wines are bruisers but I'll cellar some Tardive as always.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Picked up a couple '15s from Coudert:
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And here I am just getting around to my first two '14s. The Foillard Corcelette and CdP. It was an interesting combination of darkish fruit but lively fresh structure, although I'm sensing they may not be showing their best now and perhaps I missed some of the juicy early stage. Will check in again later.
 
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