2009 Chateau Peyros Vieilles Vignes ***(*)

Funny wine to follow from opening. Pop and taste, it is thin, with a hint of cough syrup on the finish. Wait some hours, pour half in decanter, wait 6 hours. Compare decanted and out of bottle:

Straight from bottle has this raspberry soda pop feeling I hate in wines and often find in cheap wines, but the decanted one is interesting.

It has the right darker earthy notes under an elaborate cherry fruit, rough texture I like in premium wines on the teeth only. Sometimes it seems the finish has a note of beef broth.

With steak and legumes the nice texture extends to the whole mouth. Its like a great wine that is diluted and sold at half the price of the great wine.. Which is better than a similarly priced dull wine, I guess.



So thanks Santiago, it was interesting to try something new. While I do prefer darker and more dissolved fruit notes (particularly blackberry and blackcurrants), it had some funny things going on and the beginning of the right kind of texture, which is hard to kind at the 16E is costs here. Its half price of a Beringer knights valley (which is the premium wine I was thinking of, which has more power, the darker fruits and more full mouth feeling), and it is cheaper than the australian "Quarterback" which is somewhere in between but its getting close to that in price. So I dont know if I will buy it next time or upgrade the 5E to Quarterback. Of course there's also the 14E Famiglia Bianchi Cab. Sauv., which I also think is a thinner version of a great wine and it is closer to my favourites being cab.

My wife said it tastes like wound disinfectant. So she wouldnt want me to buy it again, and she likes the two others, so that will probably play into the probability of buying again. But I might suddenly get an urge to try again in a year.

Next adventure will be Jospeh D. Morgon 2010, which is supposed to challenge my idea of beaujolais as being flavorless.

Michael Nielsen > wrote in
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> Next adventure will be Jospeh D. Morgon 2010, which is supposed to
> challenge my idea of beaujolais as being flavorless.

2010 Morgon is not the best vintage to challenge the idea of flavorless
Beaujolais Cru.

You may like 2009s better.

One producer that make rounder wines: Georges Descombes.

One producer that makes bigger wines, more extracted, with oak aging: Jean-
Marc Burgaud.

One producer that makes balanced wines from Beaujolais Cru, easy to
understand, and good quality: Jadot "Chateau des Jacques".

s.