Gamay Wine

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: Readers will remember that I admired the 2019 Fleurie last year, and that hasn't changed on reacquaintance. Bursting with scents of raspberries, orange rind, rose petals, spices and potpourri, it's medium to full-bodied...

jamessuckling.com, 96 points: This is opulent and vivid with loads of fresh blackberries and black cherries and hints of cedar and walnuts. Plums, too. So perfumed and flavorful, yet it remains fresh and creamy-textured with a long, persistent finish...

Vinous, 93 points: Vivid ruby. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red and blue fruits, potpourri, earth and smoky minerals. Supple, deeply concentrated and alluringly sweet, offering juicy, spice-kissed raspberry, boysenberry and floral...

jamessuckling.com, 96 points: This is opulent and vivid with loads of fresh blackberries and black cherries and hints of cedar and walnuts. Plums, too. So perfumed and flavorful, yet it remains fresh and creamy-textured with a long, persistent finish...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 92 points: (91-92) Scents of creme de cassis, chocolate, and nutmeg entice from the glass of Liger-Belair’s 2011 Moulin-a-Vent La Roche, though the torrefactive aspect here is no doubt prompted in large part by the wine’s low-sulfur...

Vinous, 94 points: Deep magenta. An expansive bouquet evokes ripe red and blue fruits, rose oil and smoky minerals. Juicy and energetic in the mouth, offering sappy black raspberry, boysenberry and spicecake flavors that show very good...

Vinous, 93 points: Dark ruby. Smoke-accented black/blue fruit and floral pastille aromas are complemented by suggestions of incense and cola. Sappy, expansive black raspberry and boysenberry flavors display impressive depth as well as...

Burghound, 94 points: (91-94 points) Here too the nose displays notes of reduction and wood toast. The middle weight plus flavors are quite densely concentrated with outstanding power and punch where the impressive amount of dry extract serves...