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Domaine de la Pirolette - Saint-Amour Le Carjot 2019

Beaujolais

Red

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4/5 (1 customers)

94/100

James Suckling

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92/100

Wine Enthusiast

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90/100

RVF

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90/100

Bettane & Desseauve

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"Highly concentrated blackcurrant, blueberry and black cherry combine with delicate wet earth notes and extraordinary freshness for 14.5% alcohol. Breathtaking minerality emerges on the very long finish." (James Suckling 2022). An irresistible cru parcel with incredible potential!

Features

Estate

Domaine de la Pirolette

Cuvée

Le Carjot

Vintage

2019

Designation

Saint-Amour

Region

Beaujolais

Grape varieties

100% Gamay Noir

Terroirs

Weathered bluestone floor

Viticulture

Traditional and meticulous

Harvest

At optimum maturity

Winemaking

Plot

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 cuvee of character.

Serve

AT 15-18°C

Open

1/2 hour before

Drink before

2030

Food and wine pairing

Food and wine pairing

Perfect with duck à l'orange, pot au feu, red meats, tagliatelle with mushrooms...

Domain de la Pirolette

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Saint-Amour

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Expert opinion

Bettane & Desseauve

Bettane & Desseauve

Wine rated (2023 guide) 90/100

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

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

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

Wine rated (2023 guide) 90/100

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:

In a powerful style for the vintage, we enjoy fresh black fruit, a few woody notes that accompany a flowery bouquet and a palate that's both athletic without excess, punctuated by a saline, dynamic finish.

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 Enthusiast

Wine rated (2023 guide) 92/100

About the wine:

The structure is promising. With its blackberries and layers of tannins, the wine is ready to drink. There's a touch of spice on the finish, due to the wood ageing.

James Suckling

James Suckling

Wine rated (2022 guide) 94/100

Rated Domaine (2021 guide) Recommended

About the wine:

Highly concentrated blackcurrant, blueberry and black cherry combine with delicate notes of damp earth and extraordinary freshness for an alcohol content of 14.5%. Breathtaking minerality emerges on the very long finish.

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Note and review by M. BERNARD L. Published on 06/03/2024

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