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Desvignes Morgon Côte du Py 2002

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Desvignes Morgon Côte du Py (2002)

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Winery:
Desvignes
Varietal:
Gamay
Region:
France > Burgundy > Beaujolais > Morgon
Type:
Red Wine
Drink Dates:
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User Tags:  mineral, fruit, dried, spices, closed, full, wildberry, chemical, earthy, gentle 


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The Gamay grape finds it's home in France's Burgundy region where it is responsible for the red wines of Beaujolais. Producing light to medium bodied wines with modest tannins and good acidity, Gamay is unfairly associated with Beaujolais Nouveau. It is capable of producing wonderful, cherry and raspberry flavored wines with earthy hints of violets and spice.

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Snooth User: Gregory Dal Piaz
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A tight noise with a very fine tobacco tone, mineral notes, and a hint of violet all backed up with tight wild berry fruit, opens rather nicely revealing tea, mint, moss and wild berry tone with some ferrous minerality.
Soft plush and full of gentle fading fruit edged in brown spice and roast fruit tone, some dried apricot up front and still has a nice touch of tannin adding depth, nice and fairly full with earth tone and a brilliantly mineral back end that leads to an almost salty vivid finish the acid here really pops with some air, lifting the fruit like a one pole circus tent and accentuating the read more...


June 2009

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