Chateau des Jacques Moulin-a-Vent Clos de Rochegres 2018
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Clos de Rochegrès has fine rose and peony aromas and flavors with a touch of minerals. The wine is generous on the palate thanks to its elegant, long-lasting tannins.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2018 Moulin-à-Vent Clos de Rochegrès has turned out beautifully, unfurling in the glass with a youthfully primary bouquet of black cherries, blackberries, candied peel and sweet soil tones. Medium to full-bodied, deep and multidimensional, it's rich and layered, with an ample core of fruit, lively acids and a gourmand, enveloping profile. Its oak is already entirely integrated to the extent of being imperceptible—which, for my palate, takes this cuvée to a new level.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Château des Jacques Moulin-à- Vent Clos de Rochegrès is vibrant and delicious. TASTING NOTES: This wine exudes aromas and flavors of bright boysenberries. Enjoy it with a jalapeño-accented, carnitas burrito. (Tasted: February 3, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
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An instant hit of refreshing and plush juice on the palate, vibrant with energy and persistence. Silky ripe strawberry and red cherry fruit combine with lifted acidity and a mineral frame. This is a wonderful, everyday drinking wine with lift and length but that will also benefit from at least a few years to reach its peak state, which it could then hold for decades. Part of the Jadot stable, the estate has five different plots in both Morgon and Moulin-à-Vent. This wine is made from grapes grown at 350m altitude making it one of the cooler sites with naturally higher acidity - particularly beneficial in a warm vintage like 2018. Drinking Window 2020 - 2027
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The bucolic region often identified as the southern part of Burgundy, Beaujolais actually doesn’t have a whole lot in common with the rest of the region in terms of climate, soil types and grape varieties. Beaujolais achieves its own identity with variations on style of one grape, Gamay.
Gamay was actually grown throughout all of Burgundy until 1395 when the Duke of Burgundy banished it south, making room for Pinot Noir to inhabit all of the “superior” hillsides of Burgundy proper. This was good news for Gamay as it produces a much better wine in the granitic soils of Beaujolais, compared with the limestone escarpments of the Côte d’Or.
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