Domaine de la Pirolette - Le Carjot 2017
Beaujolais
Red
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Drink or Keep
93/100
Wine Enthusiast
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16/20
Bettane & Desseauve
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90/100
Robert Parker
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16-17/20
RVF
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Médaille d'Or
Gilbert & Gaillard
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17/20
Beaujolais Aujourd'hui
"This single parcel wine was partially aged in wood for 16 months. This brought spice to the fragrant fruit and rich tannins, giving the wine plenty of cellaring potential. The finish shows the wine's youth, with licorice notes that soften as it matures. Drink from 2021. (Wine Enthusiast 2020). An irresistible cru parcellaire with incredible potential!
Features
Estate
Domaine de la Pirolette
Cuvée
Le Carjot
Vintage
2017
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
14.5%
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 before
2027
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
Wine rated (2020 guide) 16/20 (Very 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 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
Rated (2019 guide) 90/100 (Wonderful wine)
Domain rated (guide 2021) Recommended (Wine producer recommended by Robert Parker - The Wine Advocate)
About the wine:
Domain de la Pirolette's 2017 Saint-Amour Le Carjot reveals a deep bouquet of ripe cherries, plums and dark chocolate reasonably and subtly framed by a touch of wood. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, rich and mellow, with a particularly vanilla finish. With the use of older, more neutral barrels, this would be a superb cuvée, and readers with a higher tolerance for woody Beaujolais will want to add a few points to my score.
RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France
Wine rated (2020 guide) 16-17/20 (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:
The Carjot is slightly marked by a note of noble wood, quickly giving way to aromas of intense black fruit, cold coffee and chocolate sponge cake. The palate is very well constructed, with round fruit and a tannic framework that structures the whole.
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) 93/100
About the wine:
This single parcel wine was partially aged in wood for 16 months. This has added spice to the fragrant fruit and rich tannins, giving the wine plenty of cellaring potential. The finish shows the wine's youth, with licorice notes that soften as it matures. Drink from 2021.
Gilbert & Gaillard
Wine rated Gold Medal
James Suckling
Rated Domaine (2021 guide) Recommended
Beaujolais Aujourd'hui
Wine rated 17/20
Customer reviews
Customer rating
4.1/5
on 8 reviews
Note and review by M. NICOLAS B. Published on 23/10/2024
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