You buy this wine from Majestic. About £10 and on offer. Quality cork stopper, with proper lead foil.

Gamay - the best Gamay consumed here this year. 2009 is a Gamay year. If you don't like Fleurie - Then for heaven's sake, don't buy this wine. It is text book Fleurie. No furyness here, this is ripe gamay fruit.

Concentrated and weighty - with sappy red and black as well as purple fruits, and I'd say, the ability to age and improve in bottle for up to a five years or so.

Very full, but light on its feet, a refreshingly acidity that is typical of quality Gamay, a very Gamay nose (powerfull, difficult to describe) that opens like a flower. This wine gains sweetness with air, and finishes with length and persistence.

Best next day at the moment - Or triple decant, then swirl in the glass. Or keep for extra pleasure, in future years. Do not bother serving cool, this wine has more flavour at room temperature, with a lovely mildly bitter cherry finish.

Good stuff, very French and a gourmet Beaujolais, and correct.

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Duncan

This wine was awarded a Decanter silver in the over £10 Beaujolais section. Given that it was £11.99 full retail, that is pretty good QPR.

I think I may have been the 1st to blog about this grower and producer in the UK, before the juicy Gamay harvest in 2009 (whose a big head now ) I'm pretty damn chuffed.

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Enjoy your week-end Folks - At least the weather in Southern England has picked-up.

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Duncan