Moulin-à-Vent

France
Beaujolais
2023

100% Gamay. In time for the 2022 vintage, the Coudert family acquired a little less than a hectare on the Moulin-à-Vent hill in front of the estate near the lieu-dit of La Rochelle. As for all Roilette vines and wines, the farming is sustainable and all vineyard work is by hand; the Moulin is made identically as well. Vinification is traditional, semi-carbonic Beaujolais style. The whole clusters are harvested by hand and fermented spontaneously with native yeasts in open-top concrete tanks. Maceration lasts about 14 days, with a submerged cap rather than punchdowns. The wine is aged in large oak foudres from 80 to 100 years old for 9 months before bottling. Sulfur use is quite minimal. Note that the label differs from the classic Clos de la Roilette wines and features the Coudert family name instead. 

92 points
" The 2023 Moulin-à-Vent from Alain Coudert is a nicely ripe wine this year, tipping the scales at fourteen percent alcohol. The wine offers up a deep and youthfully complex nose of cassis, dark berries, gamebird, coffee bean, dark soil tones, sweet stems and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is pure, precise and full-bodied, with a fine core of black fruit, good soil signature and grip, firm, chewy tannins, fine balance and a long, tangy and promising finish. This shows drought vintage characteristics that will require some extended cellaring before the wine starts to drink with a semblance of generosity, but with sufficient patience, it should prove to be an excellent bottle. 2033-2075. "
John Gilman,
View From The Cellar
May 2025

SKU/Code: 
DB4563-23
Product Line: 
Wine
Red
Varietal: 
Gamay
Farming Type: 
Sustainable