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2021 Moulin-à-Vent, Vieilles Vignes, Louis Boillot, Beaujolais

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Gamay
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Neal Martin
89/100
Product: 20211360967
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2021 Moulin-à-Vent, Vieilles Vignes, Louis Boillot, Beaujolais

Description

The 2021 Moulin-à-Vent Vieilles Vignes has a light black cherry and cassis-scented bouquet. The palate is medium-bodied with fleshy tannins, but it just lacks a bit of weight in the middle and amplitude on the finish.

There is no avoiding the fact that it was a challenging vintage down in Beaujolais for Louis Boillot and all winemakers afflicted by the trauma of 2021. In fact, yields here were just 9hl/ha as mildew heavily affected the vines. As such, alcohol levels struggled to reach 11% to 11.5%. I feel that this cannot be disguised by these wines, which feel a bit raw and green. Nothing to do with winemaking - just the onslaught of a tough vintage.

Drink 2023 - 2029

Neal Martin, Vinous.com (January 2023)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2021
Alcohol % 12.5%
Maturity Not ready
Grape List Gamay
Body Full Bodied
Producer Louis Boillot

Critics reviews

Neal Martin 89/100

The 2021 Moulin-à-Vent Vieilles Vignes has a light black cherry and cassis-scented bouquet. The palate is medium-bodied with fleshy tannins, but it just lacks a bit of weight in the middle and amplitude on the finish.

There is no avoiding the fact that it was a challenging vintage down in Beaujolais for Louis Boillot and all winemakers afflicted by the trauma of 2021. In fact, yields here were just 9hl/ha as mildew heavily affected the vines. As such, alcohol levels struggled to reach 11% to 11.5%. I feel that this cannot be disguised by these wines, which feel a bit raw and green. Nothing to do with winemaking - just the onslaught of a tough vintage.

Drink 2023 - 2029
Neal Martin, Vinous.com (Jan 2023)

About this wine

Beaujolais

Beaujolais

Beaujolais is almost entirely planted with the Gamay grape and produces mostly red wines. Around 70 million litres of Beaujolais are produced each year, or two-and-a-half times the entire wine production of the rest of Burgundy. More than half of this is sold as Beaujolais Nouveau, although an Aladdin's trove of gloriously satisfying wines exist amongst the 10 named village crus that occupy a 15-mile strip of granite hills to the north.
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