Marcel & Marie Lapierre; Vin de Table, Gamay Raisins Gaulois 2011
The Raisins Gaulois is fun incarnate – drinking this wine offers indecent pleasure. You have to like a cheekily-monickered wine with a cartoon label of a geezer swallowing a bunch of grapes (evidently taking his wine in tablet form). Gummy Gamay, do not pass go, do not collect tannin, a redcurrant jam jamboree which just manages to steer clear of sweetness by virtue of a thwack of liquorice on the finish. You’re madder than Mad Jack McMad if you don’t serve this well chilled.
Note for the 2010 vintage
From vines in a less-than-top location behind his winery, Lapierre bottles a “vin de France” known as 2010 Raisins Gaulois that epitomizes several of this estate’s cardinal virtues and is in effect its Beaujolais nouveau. (“But if I labeled it that way,” insists Mathieu Lapierre, “nobody would buy it.”) Light and refreshing but at the same time subtly soothing in mid-palate impression; bursting with strawberry and blackberry whose tart berry skins – along with a nip of CO2 – enhance a sense of finishing invigoration, this is eminently quaffable stuff (much more so than had been the corresponding 2009) to enjoy over the next few months while waiting for the arrival of a 2011. A suggestion of nuttiness reflects the wine’s low sulfur.
Juicy red fruit - lovely! So light and lithe. Airy but complete.
Marcel & Marie Lapierre; Vin de Table, Gamay Raisins Gaulois 2011
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WineBear
The Raisins Gaulois is fun incarnate – drinking this wine offers indecent pleasure. You have to like a cheekily-monickered wine with a cartoon label of a geezer swallowing a bunch of grapes (evidently taking his wine in tablet form). Gummy Gamay, do not pass go, do not collect tannin, a redcurrant jam jamboree which just manages to steer clear of sweetness by virtue of a thwack of liquorice on the finish. You’re madder than Mad Jack McMad if you don’t serve this well chilled.
David Schildknecht
Note for the 2010 vintage
From vines in a less-than-top location behind his winery, Lapierre bottles a “vin de France” known as 2010 Raisins Gaulois that epitomizes several of this estate’s cardinal virtues and is in effect its Beaujolais nouveau. (“But if I labeled it that way,” insists Mathieu Lapierre, “nobody would buy it.”) Light and refreshing but at the same time subtly soothing in mid-palate impression; bursting with strawberry and blackberry whose tart berry skins – along with a nip of CO2 – enhance a sense of finishing invigoration, this is eminently quaffable stuff (much more so than had been the corresponding 2009) to enjoy over the next few months while waiting for the arrival of a 2011. A suggestion of nuttiness reflects the wine’s low sulfur.
Jancis Robinson
Juicy red fruit - lovely! So light and lithe. Airy but complete.
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