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2009 Vignerons de la Cave de Bel-Air Beaujolais-Villages Aurore - France, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Beaujolais-Villages (9/28/2010)
Used the majority of this bottle for a Coq au Vin dish, and left a little to taste the following night. This was actually pretty pleasant, and a good reflection of how strong 2009 was in Beaujolais. Nose had wafting smells of flowers and sweet strawberries, pretty standard fare for low-end Beaujolais, but also a deeper underlayer of dark cherries, dusky earth and a little rusty mineral. Pretty decent on the palate too. Rather dominated by high acidity, but there was plenty of fruit, moving from more sweet floaty strawberry and flowers on the attack to raspberry cream and morello cherry notes on the mid-palate, with little bits of spice and mineral bobbing around. Finish was a little short and hot, but otherwise, this was a fun, quaffable drink. There was some of the sweet sugariness that haunts mediocre Beaujolais at the edges, but certainly enough substance to balance it off. Very decent, and should get better with a year or two in bottle. (88 pts.)
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