Vanessa

9.3

🍷Cheers to this compelling Morgon crafted by one of the region’s luminaries!✨

We’re talking about the ‘Côte du Py’ Morgon (Gamay Noir) by the revered Jean Foillard.

This Gamay hails from Morgon – a “Cru” within the broader appellation of Beaujolais – with a reputation for producing structured & age-worthy wine.

👁️ This wine is medium ruby in color, like a gemstone with the delicate haze you’d expect from an unfiltered wine.

👃 The aromas & flavors are perfumed with ripe red and black cherry, wild strawberry, blueberry, pomegranate, blood orange, mulberry, rosehips, hibiscus, lilac, black tea, rooibos, black licorice, star anise, potting soil, gunflint, & clove.

👄 On the palate, it’s dry with vibrant acidity, warming alcohol, a medium body, fine, ripe tannins, followed by a persistent finish.

In sum, this is a captivating, soulful, & expressive wine; a beautiful representation of Morgon, so deliciously drinkable now, with its layers of lush fruit, florals, & spice, while demurely holding the spine, structure, & intensity to age…

I can imagine it gaining mushroom, earthy, leather, & cured meat dimensions with time.

It offers power and elegance; a wine to sip, savor, & appreciate. — 15 days ago

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Vasanth Balakrishnan

9.1

I have never been disappointed by a Cru Beaujolais, though I admit the first day this #brouilly was closed and a touch unbalanced on the tart side. Wine fridge +1 day and it’s expressed itself pleasantly. Cooked raspberry, lighter cherry nose, lovely acid-forward balance with more pronounced fruit on the second day, understated mineral notes. Good decision to buy 3 bottles at less than $20 each @ #costcowines — 2 months ago

Ed Chin

9.2

Just loved the freshness of the fruit. Definitely no need for the carbonic maceration  — 3 months ago

Dale Garrison

9.4

Lovely! Medium, almost light body but complex. Tasting. — 14 days ago

Noah Chasin

9.2

This is a bottle I could drink twice a week until my dying day. — 19 days ago

ash

9.0

2021 hits all the notes — 2 months ago

Stephen Osgood

8.9

Funky reduction overpowering some lush fruit. A bit too much manipulation for me. — 2 months ago

Angelo Casagrande

9.3

This wine is a mouthful. Just exploded in the mouth of minerals, iron, cherry/ raspberry and some dusty tannins to close. Keeps evolving. Prob should have decanted it from the start. — 11 days ago

Pooneet K

9.1

These bottlings from Thivin are some of my favorite Beaujolais. Obviously will be better in a few years - but I like to open one early and leave the rest in storage to get an early sense. This is excellent per usual - with a 4 hour decant, it’s actually quite in balance with great red fruit, a nice sappy earthy quality, and obviously excellent acid. Delicious. — 2 months ago

Jay Kline

9.3

Popped and poured; enjoyed over the course of two days; good on Day 1 and even better on Day 2. The 2022 Cuvée Zaccharie pours a deep garnet color with a transparent core; medium viscosity with moderate staining of the tears. On the nose, the wine is developing with notes of ripe and tart fruit: raspberry, black cherry, black licorice and stony minerals. On the palate, the wine is dry with medium+ tannin and medium+ acid. Confirming the notes from the nose. The finish is medium+. Any Thivin is already up there with the best in Beaujolais; this Cuvée Zaccharie is phenomenal and gives me Foillard 3.14, Breton P’tit Max, and Metras L’Ultime vibes. Wow. Great now and will only get better, particularly after 2030 and through 2045+. — 2 months ago