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2018 Clos de la Roilette Fleurie "Cuvée Tardive" (1.5L)

2018 Clos de la Roilette Fleurie "Cuvée Tardive" (1.5L)

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Wine Advocate

Review Date: 08/2019

Coudert's brilliant 2018 Fleurie Cuvée Tardive offers up a deep and incipiently complex bouquet featuring raspberries, mulberries, rose petals, violets and cracked black pepper. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, deep and layered, with an abundance of rich and powdery structuring tannins, ripe but lively acids and a long, lingering finish. While this is built for the long haul—its name alluding to the aging potential of this old-vine cuvée, not to a later harvest—its enveloping profile and perfectly mature phenolics will make it unusually approachable in its youth. (WK)

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Vinous

Review Date: 10/2019
Youthful purple. A complex, highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red/blue fruits, baking spices and potpourri, with hints of blood orange and savory herbs emerging with aeration. Juicy, densely packed mulberry and boysenberry flavors show excellent clarity and powerful back-end thrust becoming sweeter with air. Shows serious power and sexy, floral lift on the impressively persistent finish, which is supported by slowly building, youthfully gripping tannins. (JR)

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Jasper Morris

Review Date: 04/2019
Not yet in bottle. Old vines, and built to age. Fine vigorous purple. The nose is rather more backward than the regular bottling. There is notably more concentration and also more muscle. Tannins supporting the weight of fruit, this will be an impressive, powerful wine in due course.

Notes

In the 1920s, when the Fleurie appellation was first created, the former landowner was infuriated with losing the Moulin-à-Vent appellation under which he had previously been classified. He created a label, using a photograph of his horse Roilette, and used the name Clos de la Roilette, without mentioning Fleurie. The current label does mention the name of the appellation, but only as a subscript. Coudert's Fleurie, often better known as "that delicious wine with the Horse on the label," comes from the Clos de la Roilette, in the village of Fleurie. The vineyard has an eastern exposure that borders the Moulin-à-Vent and is situated on one of the best slopes in the Beaujolais Crus. Father-son winemaking team, Fernand and Alain Coudert, say their particular terroir (mainly clay and manganese), and the age of their vines account for the richness of their Fleurie.

Product Details

Origin: Beaujolais, France

Type/Varietal: Gamay

SKU: #2013704