That’s very unfortunate if that’s the case. I was at a tasting last year with a range of her '21s and '22s, and I must say that neither did anything for me. She seemed a bit reluctant— for lack of a better word— to pour, and this makes sense with your quote in mind. I wonder why you’d show up at a tasting with your least favorite vintage.
Won’t tell anyone to love her wines and haven’t tried any recent vintages but the ones I have had, have been very tight, requiring time.
Here are my three notes (very unfinished just for myself type of notes that I never got around to brush up) and you’ll see what I mean with the first two tried 4 and 7 years from the vintage and it took till day three for them to show, while the bottle had 9 years from the vintage showed well from day two 
2017 Domaine Mee Godard Morgon Corcelette
(2024) Tight and dense. Needs time. The Morgon chalkiness start to peak out the slightest by night 3. Will be good with time.
2016 Domaine Mee Godard Morgon Grands Cras
(2022) Started closed and stayed so until the third day when it began to open up.
Still quite some structure, strawberries, ripe red cherries and herbal notes. Spices. Medium+ acidity.
2017 Domaine Mee Godard Moulin-à-Vent Au Michelon
(2026 PnP day two)
This is starting to show quite well. Serious and delicious.
Red cherries and strawberries, herbs, tannins start silky then move towards more serious and fine grained. Chalky licorice. High salivating acidity and a very long sapidic lingering finish.
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I was excited to try one of the Mee Godard Fleuries and ordered it with some friends. I didn’t care for it at all, and had it put to a seperate bill so no one else would have to pay for it.
She had qualms of conscience for selling bad wines to unsuspecting clients, for full price. So much for the myth of the venerable winemaker.
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I remember her telling about the poor vintage, but if you’re heading to a wine fair hoping to make some new Beaujo’fiends then you should probably bring the heat? At least a ‘good’ vintage to show the spectrum. Foillard also makes ‘vin de garde’, but they’re approachable from day 1 IMO.
If that was the goal - mission accomplished !
2019 Yann Bertrand Cuvee Du Chaos
A nice Beaujolais, with a bit of brambly blackberry, and a bit of herbs on both the nose and palate, with almost a bit of spiciness to the herbs, but very moderate alcohol, medium acid. Tannins moderate and very drinkable with some shishito peppers and enoki dish, some ginger soy chicken, and pickles from our garden. The wine is quite light in terms of texture, and took my wife more in a pinot direction, but definitely a nice wine with dinner.
JOY OF BEAUJOLAIS TASTING - (7/28/2026)
- 2024 Domaine Les Roches Bleues Brouilly La Croquante - France, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Brouilly
The crunchy one! 100% Gamay from organically grown 40–60-year-old vines on the pink granitic soils of Brouilly. Lovely label… Bright, crunchy red fruit with some funk and slight effervescence in the bottle. Really easy drinking but lighter and less structured than I typically expect from a Cru Beaujolais. Divided the group, with one side loving the simple, crunchy red fruit flavor profile, while the other felt it leaned a little too "natty." (89 points) - 2022 Domaine de la Grosse Pierre Chiroubles Grille-Midi - France, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Chiroubles
50-year-old vines organically grown on pink granite and planted on a high-elevation plot over 420 meters (1,370+ ft). This was my favorite discovery of the tasting and one of my top wines. Fragrantly aromatic with fresh red fruit, orange citrus, floral, and spicy stem notes. Beautifully concentrated red fruit with velvety, medium tannins, high, bright acidity, and wonderful palate weight. The wine's 14% ABV was perfectly balanced by its pronounced fruit concentration. Just a phenomenal wine with a very long, persistent finish. (94 points) - 2023 Guy Breton Morgon Vieilles Vignes - France, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Morgon
Organically grown Gamay from 80-year-old vines grown on granite soils. This has consistently been one of my favorite bottles of Cru Beaujolais for a while now. It always brings a smile to my face and this time it was no different. Beautifully drinkable with ripe, layered red fruit and savory spice. Juicy, crunchy, and just plain delicious. (93 points) - 2024 Jean-Marc Burgaud Morgon Côte du Py - France, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Morgon
Organically grown Gamay from 50-year-old Côte du Py vines. 12–15 days of semi-carbonic maceration, spontaneous whole-cluster fermentation, and 16 months of maturation in used barrels. Showing significantly more dark fruit than bright red fruit compared to when I last tasted it in February. Black cherry dominant, with cranberry, orange peel, and a spicy, stemmy note. The tannins felt more structured and powerful than previously shown. This wine stood apart from the rest of the lineup thanks to its darker fruit profile and firmer structure. Insane value at $22 USD. (92 points) - 2023 Jean Paul & Charly Thevenet Morgon Vieilles Vignes - France, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Morgon
Organically grown 60–100-year-old Gamay vines planted on sandy granite. 100% whole cluster, low fermentation temperatures, three weeks of maceration, and 8–10 months of maturation in used 228 L barriques. Stylistically quite similar to the 2023 Guy Breton Morgon Vieilles Vignes, showing ripe red fruit and sweet spice, but with slightly less fruit ripeness and firmer tannins. (93 points) - 2015 Domaine Lafarge-Vial Fleurie Clos Vernay - France, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Fleurie
15% whole bunch, organic viticulture, planted on granite, aged in large old oak. WOW, this bottle is in a great place. Aromatically complex with floral lavender, potpourri, and a nice mix of red cherry and blackberry fruit. Elegant, with silky, beautifully resolved tannins and waves of texture on the palate. A very long, persistent finish. A wine that evokes the phrase that fine Cru Beaujolais ages like Burgundy. The comparison may be cliché, but bottles like this continue to reinforce just how gracefully top Cru Beaujolais can age, especially from a producer so closely tied to Burgundy. (94 points)
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It is really excellent, Gilman is big on it as well. Its lesser-priced sibling is equally excellent, the Domaine de la Grosse Pierre Chiroubles Claudius. Popped yet another bottle of the 2022 last night. A fresher version of the Grille-Midi. These are like catnip for me.
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2023 Chateau Thivin Cote de Brouilly
One of my “ol’ reliable” weeknight wines…
Nose opens with…brett! Never remember brett in any Chateau Thivin. Not overwhelming, but boar skin leads in front of forest cherry and forest blackberry, light pepper spice. The palate is savory with brambly, earthy forest cherry, herbs, and game. Medium weight, 13.5%, good acid.
A little bit unexpected with the brett…I normally expect a relatively clean wine from Chateau Thivin. Great wine though…beautifully balanced, earthy, savory, expressive. Fruit all wrapped in herb and pepper and game. Nice!
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2023 Jean-Paul Dubost “Le Potet” Regnie
Vines 30-70 years old, biodynamically farmed. Semi-carbonic vinification, aged in steel.
Pours a medium ruby. Nose is clean and a bit restrained with dark cherry and potting soil. Palate is silky with red-black cherry…fine tannins, moderate acidity.
Very clean, nice structure, however neither joyful nor profound. My only experience with this producer and didn’t love it.
New name to me, but so many new Beaujolais names these days!
This was a gorgeous bottle of 1995 Foillard CdP. It went straight to a decanter for a bit of sediment, and showed lovely silky ethereal fruit from the first sip. It blossomed and held up quite well over two hours, showing more depth and breadth. I liked it at all stages. Perfect pleasure.
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Oh wow! In your cellar all the time?
Not mine, this was courtesy of @Dale_Williams who I believe had it in his cellar the whole time.
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In the start of my collecting journey and I can only dream of the pleasure of opening these bottles 25+ years later. Well done.
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Rosenthal imports a fairly broad selection of his wines. Rosenthal definitely one of the importers I trust implicitly. May get a mixed case of some other Dubost wines to see what else is on offer.
