Fleurie

2021
France
Beaujolais

The Fleurie wine-making is traditional - whole clusters are kept, which leads to a semi-carbonic maceration as the juice settles in the bottom of the tanks. After fermentation is completed in stainless, the wines are moved to the cellar for aging in old, wooden tonneau barrels. The Fleurie has a piquant raspberry fruit and very soft, dusty tannins. It's stunning young and will also cellar well, for those who like to wait. 

92 points
"The 2021 Fleurie from the Loron family’s Château de Fleurie is a beautiful young wine. It is utterly classical in personality, offering up a vibrant bouquet of red and black cherries, cranberries, sweet stem tones, a lovely base of dark soil, woodsmoke and a topnote of fresh thyme. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and nicely structured out of the blocks, with a fine core of fruit, excellent mineral undertow and grip, moderate tannins and a long, focused and very well-balanced finish. I would tuck this away in the cellar for at least a few years and let its secondary layers of complexity emerge, while those backend tannins relax a bit more. It is going to be excellent. 2025-2045."
John Gilman,
View from the Cellar

SKU/Code: 
DB7715-21
Product Line: 
National Portfolio
Wine
Red
Varietal: 
Gamay
Farming Type: 
Sustainable
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