Cuvée Tardive Fleurie Gamay

Stunning from large format over a raclette night w friends. Precisely why you age great gamay for 10 years.

Vintage 2019 | very good concentration, curious how the wine will develop

Good, solid Bojo. Lots of granite-laced plummy fruit. A little cherry and spice too. Good flavor intensity. Acids a bit low. But nice crunch from the minerality. A noticeable amount of tannin too.

Transparent crimson. Pretty stable funk makes things interesting, blows off quickly. Pure and more red than purple-fruited. Nice anise spice on the nose. Really rocking on night 2. Sweet and bright.

Opened too soon, thinking it was the regular Fleurie - labels are too similar. But showing well

Just needed 3/4 years after release to shed some of that extra meat locker taste to it. Raspberry, dark cherry, Asian spices, bacon fat. Better with food. 

Not ready. Maybe in 3 years the tannins will integrate, but right now it’s not drinking like a bojo. Reminds me of the ‘15 vintage.

So much power to this wine.

I want more

Supple, round sour cherry / earth, mineral, stemmy green brush / enough acid to balance the body