Domaine de la Pirolette - Saint Amour 2018

Name: Domaine de la Pirolette - Saint Amour 2018
Brand: Domaine de la Pirolette
Rating: 3.6 (36 reviews)

Saint-Amour|Red wine

Beaujolais

Red

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Drink or Keep

3.6/5 (36 customers)

92/100

Wine Enthusiast

14,5/20

Bettane & Desseauve

Médaille d'Or

Gilbert & Gaillard

16/20

RVF

Cité

Hachette

gamay

racy

success

"An accomplished vintage!

"Right from the nose, one senses great mastery and the desire to deliver a racy wine: it's precise, subtle, making one salivate with black fruit pulp, elegant vegetal and a fine toasted reduction. The palate is racy, built around a dense, rich body. The tannin is meticulous. A fine saline finish with a hint of red fruit". (La Revue du Vin de France - June-July 2020). A success once again for this Saint Amour 2018 edition! Ranked by Wine Enthusiast among the 100 best wines in the 2017 vintage, this cuvée proves accomplished here, offering a lovely juice full of strawberry flavors and ripe acidity.

Features

Estate

Domaine de la Pirolette

Vintage

2018

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

14.5%

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 before

2024

Food and wine pairing

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

Domain de la Pirolette

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Saint-Amour

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Expert opinion

Bettane & Desseauve

Wine rated (2020 guide) 14.5/20 (Good wine)

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

About the wine:

This cuvée has established itself as a safe bet, with a pulpy, structured style that keeps the fruit as its priority. A pleasure to drink.

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.

Guide Hachette des vins

Rated wine (2020 guide) Cited (Successful wine)

About the wine:

A Saint-Amour that plays on roundness and harmony to make itself charming. Its structure and supple tannins give it elegance. The whole is not lacking in aromatic power, with spicy, jammy notes.

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 (2020 guide) 16/20 (Very good 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:

Right from the nose, one senses great mastery and the desire to deliver a racy wine: it's precise, subtle, making one salivate with black fruit pulp, elegant vegetal and a fine toasted reduction. The palate is racy, built around a dense, rich body. The tannin is meticulous. A fine, saline finish with a hint of red fruit.

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 (2020 guide) 92/100

About the wine:

Intense strawberry aromas immediately mark this wine. The structure on the palate is typical of the appellation, giving shape and density to this ripe, fruity wine. Drink from 2021.

Gilbert & Gaillard

Wine rated Gold Medal

James Suckling

Rated Domaine (2021 guide) Recommended

Customer reviews

Customer rating

3.6/5

on 36 reviews