This is a Louis Jadot wine, generic Jadot label which is attractive.

The '08 Beau Village is more pale than I expected, and the wine more burgundy in colour, no purple gamay hue to the wine. It is light and classicaly for Beau, the usual 12.5% Alc.
I like that low Alc attribute in a Beaujolais which when good at this this level, should be fresh and young with lots of easy and enjoyable fruit.

Right.....Combe Aux Jacques. The fruit comes mainly from the new cru Regnie' which does not appear on the old maps of the region.
The wine is very savoury, and very developed. The wine has little nose, and for a Gamay that is rather dissapointing.
The wine is very dry, much too dry to be immeditely appealing. With a vegetarian supper this wine is not attactive when the vegetables are sweet and young, the wine not nice at all with roasted squash and potatoes, not nice with mushroom & tomatoe & onion Lassagne, not nice with the baked reccotta cheese topping.

This wine, could be good with strong camembert and strongly flavoured roast BBQ sauce flavoured chicken, or similar pheasant hot pot.

Otherwise, I think the wine has dried out, the fruit had passed its best a while ago and now it tastes green ! I dont think the 2008 fruit was much cop on release, otherwise it would still be surviving now.

Not recommended, Louis, you can make much better wine than the contents in this bottle !

Bottle variance ? Dunno.

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Duncan

Actually, have just been writing up Red Burg - see articles - and also putting the Meursaults into the Forum to be searchable - and LJ hasn't been doing well.

Anyone else any comment on LJ recently?

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Two excellent articles there Mel Great for novices, and good for experienced folks as well.

LJ - Yeah, actually to coin a....... of the small amounts I've tasted, his sub £20 burgundies in recent years have been indifferent for a while. Dunno if there is a reason ? The Bouchard Piere et Fils Jolly Beau's have been much nicer, and although a quid more or so - miles ahead. Chanson is also making Jolly Beau cru's as well. Is LJ relying on being a household name ? Does he get screwed on the margin when doing massive volumes ?


"Short" is most appropriate. Why is he making in the dry and shallow and/or the astringent style ....reminiscent of naf'ish or dull burgundy in the eighties, when the rest of the world are sweating their rocks off to try and emulate an elegant style at the affordable end.

Why oh Why ?

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On another note:
There is, or was last Thursday on their site, a 2006 (early maturing vintage) Nick Potel in collaboration with a lesser name Beaune 1er rouge at M&S for very small money - Anybody tried it ? Heard any good reports ?

Nick Potel is usually safe, but so is / was / hitherto, LJ !

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Edit - I've drunk some good LJ's in the past, I remember a '99 Beaune 1er domaine mix that was superb value for money. Pouilly Fuisse '01 more recently too, a jolly nice survivor at 8 years.

Watch this space - For ole times sake, I'm hoping someone finds a good'un currently available.

We hope the wines of Jadot make a come-back - Otherwise........

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I'm sat on an '07 and hoping.

You're alright Ba, The Fuisse should not be way off beam. I'm not sure it's for you though, '03 & '05 would be better for you.

Look - Think of those poor devils who have half a case or so of the '07 Gevrey laying down, and at £27.50 a pop !

Things sometimes work out with a village Burgundy, an ugly duckling partly redeems herself, not overall, but passes muster.

Of the LJ Beau village, a peppery note has come out in that Gamay - I dont know, what ever next ? That savoury over-dryness is better with a pepper hit in the centre. Puckers like a good-un after two glasses on the trot, but I'll finish the bottle. Gonna put the rest in the fridge and experiment. Might cut a wedge of extra strong peppery cheddar and see how they fight one another.

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