Very tasty '06 Coudert Brouilly

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Bruce Gray
Had a '06 Coudert Brouilly Clos de la Roilette Vieilles Vignes that we took to a Christmas dinner that was out of this world. Fantastic bright cherries and strawberries on the nose. Going down, great spiciness and acidity combined with more strawberry/red cherry flavors with velvety tannins. Did I mention lots of acidity?

Back of the bottle says it's a Dressner import but I'm not finding anything about this particular one on Joe's site. Is this the same producer?
 
Hey Bruce,
Glad you found this place.
Coudert Brouilly? I never have seen this, but would love to try it.
A local find?
 
Hello again Marc. I've been lurking a bit since the old site went down and this came up but I had to post about this delicious bottle. I got it via the "Garage" and wish I had a case to stash away.
 
I thought all his vines were in Fleurie (or considered Moulin a Vent at one time as the story goes).

Anyway, there are lots of good '06 Beaujolais around still, don't despair.
 
Hey Bruce, nice to hear from you.

Never saw their post on that and really wish I'd picked some up. I didn't realize they made a Brouilly either. I don't think Dieter brought that in so it's a little weird G offered it...

The 06 Fleurie is great.
 
By the way, we're enjoying a 98 Michel MdT tonite, makes me think back to our Chablis night, when (I believe) we shared a 98 Montmains, or Vaillons - can't remember which.
 
originally posted by Joe Dressner:
Someone should ask the importer. He used to post here.
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Hey Joe,

Is this a special parcel owned by the same Coudert as the one whose Fleurie bottlings you import? What's the story?
 
The Coudert took over this parcel after the 2005 harvest. It was owned by an Aunt. The vines are 50-years-old and in good condition.
 
I don't understand the question. The Aunt used to lease the vineyard. Coudert took it over and made the wine in 2006. Please let me know what the confusion here might be.
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
Someone should ask the importer. He used to post here.
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I heard he went mad and is now living in the sewers under Lincoln Center, plotting his revenge.
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Funny, I heard he's been seen camped outside a synagogue in Great Neck. Urban legend?
 
While we're on the subject, anyone know if he is any relation to either ric or Chantal Coudert-Appert who make a Fleurie under the name of Domaine de la Chapelle des Bois? Given the rather tight-knit structure of Beaujolais society, I assume so, but knowledge trumps guesswork any day.

Mark Lipton
(Who also knew a Jean-Marie Appert who made wine in Chiroubles and Fleurie)
 
They are cousins and not particularly close cousins.

In what sense do you find Beaujolais society tight-knit?

I suppose that in any rural village, two people with the same last name might very well be relatives or distant relatives. But I don't think this is particular to the Beaujolais.
 
originally posted by Joe Dressner:
They are cousins and not particularly close cousins.

In what sense do you find Beaujolais society tight-knit?

I suppose that in any rural village, two people with the same last name might very well be relatives or distant relatives. But I don't think this is particular to the Beaujolais.
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Tight-knit in the sense that I am often surprised at how well known even relatively small operations are elsewhere in the region, and how vignerons seem to know each other more often than not. No, it's not unique to the Beaujolais and really is more a reflection of small town life, but I see it more there than elsewhere in rural France, possibly because I've spent more time there.

Thanks also for the information. As I said, I had assumed as much, but better to have it confirmed by one who knows than make an idiot of myself at some point when I assume it falsely to be true. I think that I'm still scarred from a youthful error wherein I believed Katharine and Audrey Hepburn to have been closely related.

Mark Lipton
 
It's always been my understanding that the special tight-knit quality of small town life in the Beaujolais is almost entirely due to the locals not wanting outsiders finding out about, you know, the whole thing with the lottery and the blood sacrifice. Because then they'd make them stop, and the crops would fail.
 
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