Domaine de la Pirolette - Saint Amour 2017

Name: Domaine de la Pirolette - Saint Amour 2017
Brand: Domaine de la Pirolette
Rating: 4.1 (8 reviews)

Saint-Amour|Red wine

Beaujolais

Red

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4.1/5 (8 customers)

93/100

Wine Enthusiast

"This 15-hectare vineyard, one of the largest in the cru, is located on the hillside of Saint-Amour, near the village church. It produces a juicy wine, full of strawberry flavors and ripe acidity. Fragrant and textured, this wine will develop, given time. Drink from 2020." (Wine Enthusiast 2019) Gourmet pleasure!

Features

Estate

Domaine de la Pirolette

Vintage

2017

Designation

Saint-Amour

Region

Beaujolais

Grape varieties

100% Gamay

Terroirs

Stony soils of sandstone and bluestone, clay and granitic sands

Viticulture

Traditional and meticulous

Harvest

At optimum maturity

Winemaking

Whole bunches or destemmed in cement vats, using the ancestral "toasted cap" technique for gentle extraction of tannins.

Breeding

In concrete tanks

Alcohol content

14%

Tasting & pairing

Eye

Purple dress

Nose

Delicious and delicate with red fruits, strawberry gariguette, with notes of violet.

Mouth

Full-bodied and juicy, with supple, elegant tannins and a slightly chocolaty finish.

Serve

AT 14-16°C

Drink from

2020

Drink before

2023

Food and wine pairing

Delightful with Bresse chicken, pork filet mignon and mushrooms, Pad Thai ...

Domain de la Pirolette

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Expert opinion

Bettane & Desseauve

Domain rated (guide 2021) 2*Stars (A serious and recommendable production, but a little more regular and homogeneous than the previous one)

About the domain :

Grégory Barbet, son of former House Director Jean Loron, produced his first vintage in 2013. With 15 hectares perfectly situated around the estate, Grégory quickly understood the need to deal with the heterogeneity of a cru better known for its evocative name than for its hitherto confidential parcels. While his village cuvée is positioned in a reliable, structured style, his plot-based cuvées, Poulette and Carjot, are in the making. Indeed, while the use of wood has improved, it's the blending with concrete eggs that has really brought a more subtle balance to the woodiness, which is finding its rightness in 2018. In an appellation where references were lacking, here is a young estate to watch, as much for the rising quality of its wines as for the contagious passion that inhabits this young winemaker.

Robert Parker - Wine Advocate

Domain rated (guide 2021) Recommended (Wine producer recommended by Robert Parker - The Wine Advocate)

RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France

Domain rated (guide 2021) Selected (We remind you that this guide is a prize list and as such, all the domains that appear in it, even without a star, represent, in our eyes, the excellence of French production).

About the domain :

A former cooperage sales executive, Virginie Barbet bought this estate in 2013 with her husband Grégory and a few investor friends. Depending on the cuvée, the grapes are either destemmed or pressed whole. But always with a "chapeau grillé" accompanied by pumping-over and délestage for gentle extraction. They then mature in French oak barrels and concrete eggs their various parcel-based cuvées, which are among the most distinctive terroirs of the cru. Today, they are one of the few domains to restore Saint-Amour's cru status.

Wine Enthusiast

Wine rated (2019 guide) 93/100

About the wine:

This 15-hectare vineyard, one of the largest in the cru, is located on the hillside of Saint-Amour, near the village church. It produces a juicy wine, full of strawberry flavors and ripe acidity. Fragrant and textured, this wine will develop, given time. Drink from 2020.

James Suckling

Rated Domaine (2021 guide) Recommended

Customer reviews

Customer rating

4.1/5

on 8 reviews