Moulin-à-Vent "Les Thorins" (LIBRARY)

2015
France
Beaujolais

100% Gamay. Jean-Paul bottles a straight Moulin-à-Vent but additionally does two lieu-dit-specific versions: this one is Les Thorins, which sits just below the other, La Rochelle.  The fruit for this bottling comes from vines aged 60+ years old on sandy. decomposed-granite soils with iron. The wine is vinified like the other Terres Dorées reds: the hand-harvested bunches are destemmed and fermented with native yeasts and without sulfur in concrete. The maceration is lengthy like that for the regular Moulin-à-Vent bottling, lasting up to 6 weeks; it too is aged in wood before being bottled with a light, non-sterile filtration and minimal sulfur.

 

93 points
"Lurid ruby. Powerful, intensely perfumed dark berry, cherry pie and licorice candy aromas, along with hints of incense and musky flowers. Sweet and impressively concentrated, offering sappy blackberry, floral pastille and spicecake flavors that tighten up slowly with aeration. Plays richness and power off vivacity with a smooth hand and finishes very long and sweet, featuring mounting tannins and repeating spiciness."
Josh Raynolds,
Vinous Media
October 2017

SKU/Code: 
DB3974-15
Product Line: 
Wine
Red
Varietal: 
Gamay
Farming Type: 
Sustainable