Domaine de la Pirolette - Le Carjot 2016
Beaujolais
Red
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Drink or Keep
17/20
RVF
"The volcanic character of the bluestone appears in this cuvée in an eruptive form, rich with the warmth of the soil and the vintage. Its precise finish offers a length made for the table." (Le Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France 2019 - RVF) A well-structured cuvée to keep!
Features
Estate
Domaine de la Pirolette
Cuvée
Le Carjot
Vintage
2016
Designation
Saint-Amour
Region
Beaujolais
Grape varieties
100% Gamay Noir
Terroirs
Weathered bluestone floor
Viticulture
Traditional and meticulous
Harvest
At optimum maturity
Breeding
16 months in concrete eggs and equal parts oak barrels
Alcohol content
14%
Tasting & pairing
Nose
Spicy with floral and black fruit aromas, touch of coffee
Mouth
Fleshy, full of fruit, full-bodied tannic structure. Peppery, liquorice finish. A wine of character.
Serve
AT 16-18°C
Open
1/2 hour before
Drink from
2020
Drink before
2025
Food and wine pairing
Perfect with duck à l'orange, pot au feu, red meats, or mature cheeses such as Epoisse...
Domain de la Pirolette
Saint-Amour
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
Wine rated (2019 guide) 17/20 + Coup de Cœur (Great wine)
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 wine:
The volcanic character of the bluestone appears in this cuvée in an eruptive form, rich with the warmth of the soil and the vintage. Its precise finish offers a length made for the table.
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.
James Suckling
Rated Domaine (2021 guide) Recommended
Customer reviews
Customer rating
4.3/5
on 3 reviews
Note and review by M. GEORGES P. Published on 15/09/2020
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Note and review by M. ARNAUD P. Published on 19/06/2020
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Note and review by M. DAVID A. Published on 10/10/2019
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