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Quenching your thirst in Lyon with Beaujolais & Coteaux du Lyonnais Wines

Julien Miquel — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:25:51 +0000

The richness and diversity of Lyonnais cuisine is best enjoyed when accompanied with the right wine. When in Lyon, you can pick up any menu and you’ll find a whole gamut of wines, but the vineyards printed on the bottle can be far from local. […]

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2017 Beaujolais Nouveau is Here ! Let’s Celebrate the New Vintage

Julien Miquel — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 20:40:22 +0000

Every year since 1951, the third Thursday of November, tucked between Halloween and Thanksgiving, marks an entertaining event for the worldwide wine community: the release of the new-vintage Beaujolais Nouveau wine. Nouveau might be mocked by some, for its fruity light-hearted approach to wine. But […]

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2014 Jean-Marc Lafont Les Galopines Viognier, Comté Rhodanien IGP, France

Julien Miquel — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 11:37:04 +0000

Score: 86/100 Beaujolais wine producer Jean-Marc Lafont sees the effect global warming through the harvests that are a bit earlier every year. Because of this, and having fully South-facing vineyards on granitic soils (quite warm), he decided, together with 3 friends to plant 2 […]

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2013 Jean-Marc Lafont Les Serines Syrah, IGP Pays du Comté Rhodanien, France

Julien Miquel — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 15:46:16 +0000

Score: 87+/100 Forgive the absence of label on the header’s picture bottle. For some reason the tasting sample I received didn’t have one. But this is what the normal label looks like: To anticipate on the consequences of global warming, Beaujolais producer Jean-Marc Lafont […]

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2016 Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais-Villages Nouveau

Julien Miquel — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 19:50:04 +0000

Score : 86/100 Check out our article about the New 2017 Vintage of Beaujolais Nouveau: 2017 Beaujolais Nouveau is Here ! Let’s Celebrate the New Vintage This year, (lucky me!), I was lucky enough to taste not one but two Beaujolais Nouveau wines from Georges […]

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2016 Beaujolais Nouveau is here ! Tasting Georges Duboeuf’s

Julien Miquel — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:14:18 +0000

Score: 85/100 Check out our article about the New 2017 Vintage of Beaujolais Nouveau: 2017 Beaujolais Nouveau is Here ! Let’s Celebrate the New Vintage How Good is 2016 Beaujolais Nouveau? We’re giving you a hint tasting one of the biggest seller in the […]

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2012 Château du Moulin-à-Vent Croix des Verillats, Beaujolais, France

Julien Miquel — Sat, 07 May 2016 15:59:50 +0000

Score: 92/100 Like all Beaujolais reds, this wine from the Moulin-à-Vent Cru is made from 100% Gamay grapes. It is a single vineyard wine from the ‘Croix des Verillats’ climat, a 4.4 ha (11 acres) vineyard area on top of a granitic hill. This […]

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2012 Château du Moulin-à-Vent, Beaujolais, France

Julien Miquel — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:59:54 +0000

Score: 90/100 Like all Beaujolais reds, this wine from the Moulin-à-Vent Cru is made from 100% Gamay grapes. The producer Château du Moulin-à-Vent has gone through a revival in recent years, and claims to be one of the best in the area and the Moulin-à-Vent appellation. Unlike […]

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2012 Château du Moulin-à-Vent La Rochelle, Beaujolais, France

Julien Miquel — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:51:23 +0000

Score: 92/100 Like all Beaujolais reds, this wine from the Moulin-à-Vent Cru is made from 100% Gamay grapes. It is a single vineyard wine from the ‘La Rochelle’ climat. The vines are very old, about 70 years old and planted very densely (10,000 plants/ha) […]

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