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Domaine Diochon, Moulin-a-Vent Cuvee Vieilles Vignes, 2011

Red Wine from Beaujolais, France
by Domaine Diochon
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Fifteen years on, this is the argument for Moulin-à-Vent as the most serious of the Beaujolais crus. Diochon's Vieilles Vignes comes from vines planted between 1920 and the 1960s on pink granite and sandstone over a manganese-rich subsoil, vinified traditionally with whole clusters in concrete, given only a minute dose of sulfur and bottled unfined and unfiltered. Bernard Diochon, who took over from his father in 1967, chose Thomas Patenôtre as his successor in 2007 specifically to keep those methods intact. 2011 was a warm, early vintage in Beaujolais that gave ripe, generous wines, and this bottle has spent the years since in a private cellar: the tannins have melted and the fruit has turned savory and tertiary. Drink it over the next couple of years rather than cellaring it further, with a decanter and a proper meal.

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Antonio Galloni

91 points

"Brilliant ruby. Powerful, mineral-tinged aromas of dried cherry, blackberry and violet, with a smoky overtone. Pungent, palate-staining dark fruit flavors are enlivened by juicy acidity and pick up a spicy nuance with air. Closes chewy and long, with bright minerality adding bite to lingering bitter cherry and floral pastille notes." —Josh Raynolds

Robert Parker

91 points

"The Diochon 2011 Moulin-a-Vent Vieilles Vignes I tasted (as usual, unfiltered for the U.S. and one of several bottlings, the others of which I did not experience) brims with juicy, ripe cassis allied to beef bouillon and laced with iodine, crushed stone, bitter-edged resinous herbs, and sweet-saline suggestions of shrimp shell reduction. It is a veritable surf ‘n’ turf of Gamay and granite, with a medicinal aura and tea-like alliance of graininess and refreshment that suggest it must be as good for you as it is good-tasting. Gentle pump-overs and 14 days total maceration have extracted fine-grained tannins for a wine that allies depth and structure to admirable levity and primary juiciness, promising the sort of age-ability associated across the decades with Bernard Diochon’s work. There are a lot of impressive and sometimes flashy Moulin-a-Vents today that didn’t exist half a dozen years much less decades ago, but their aging potential must remain a matter for speculation, intuition, and hope; whereas here’s a wine with a track record – albeit under a new proprietor – from which one can expect further complexity and enormous satisfaction at least through 2020." —David Schildknecht

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Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Gamay

  • Vintage

    2011

  • Size

    750ml

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Roast chicken, coq au vin, mushroom dishes, aged Comté, or a rare steak.

Tasting Profile

Fully mature: dried cherry, iron, smoke and forest floor, with the fruit turned savory. Medium-bodied, tannins completely resolved, still fresh, finishing dry and earthy.