Chiroubles, Beaujolais Villages, Beaujolais, Burgundy, FranceThis Chiroubles is not your grandmother’s Beaujolais. Deep in colour, it comes with a granitic-fired structure that gives it a substantial base to launch a raft of intense spicy black fruit all wrapped up in a juicy finish with soft tannins. This is a wine for food, and at this time of the year, turkey quickly comes to mind. Chiroubles is a small, hilly appellation (the highest in Beaujolais) to the west of Fleurie. The general wine style is all about fragrant aromas, fruit, and silky textures. The old rules would say to serve this in three to five years, but these wines are grown and made much better today and will easily hold five to seven years or more.Tasted: 28 October 2022Tasted by: Prices:
Chiroubles, Beaujolais Villages, Beaujolais, Burgundy, FranceThe Charvet family has farmed this Chiroubles-based estate for more than six generations. Today, Steeve Charvet oversees their 7 hectares of vines, including the Crus of Chiroubles and Morgon. The 2018 Chiroubles was bottled earlier than usual to compensate for Steeve's loss of the 2016 vintage and 40% of the 2017 crops. From 40-year-old vines rooted in steep sandy and granite slopes, this was 20% destemmed and native fermented before age six months in concrete. Layers of cherry, plum, and fragrant peony are well woven around a pure-fruited plummy core, wrapped with fine-grained, lightly grippy tannins, and finished with pink peppercorn spicing and mineral salts. A modest little charmer, gentle yet lively, and with great typicity for Chiroubles.Tasted: 06 February 2021Tasted by: Prices:
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