This past week when travelig I tried a Morgan Gamay, Village wine. From Burg the staff at restaurant said.
I had asssumed the only red wine from Burg was Pinot Noir. I guess I was wrong? :-(
Wine was very different, very interesting, lots of flavors...but not the type I would have again. It was a Kermit Lynch selection.
"Richard Neidich" wrote in news:QtfZd.3449$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net:
Morgon is Beaujolais and Gamay is the grape for that area.
"Richard Neidich" wrote in news:QtfZd.3449$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net:
forgot to add, Beaujolais for some reason unkown to me is labeled Burgundy from time to time
It was this time as well...
Yes Dick, Morgan is one of the 10 Crus of Beaujolais.
Michael, thanks for correction. I knew I should be careful re use of French administrative terms such as Department without a reference in front of me!
Yes Dick, Morgan is one of the 10 Crus of Beaujolais.
Michael, thanks for correction. I knew I should be careful re use of French administrative terms such as Department without a reference in front of me!
Well, I dislike the Neauveaus...but I did find this wine interesting.
For some decades it has been conventional for Anglophone wine writers to group Beaujolais wines in with the Burgundies, and then explain the distinction. Scrupulous US restaurant wine lists tend to segregate them. The gross classification of a Beaujolais as "Burgundy Wine" may be required by US import laws, or marketing convenience, or a desperate effort to simplify things for an impatient emerging market that sometimes even asks producers to adjust their wine labels to its prejudices rather than vice versa.
-- Max
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Yes, the Morgon village area (note spelling) is renowned for the most storage-worthy wines of Beaujolais. Up to 10 years, I've heard. The B. Nouveau (spelling again :-) is not wine - it is grape juice with alcohol..., unfinished wine so to speak... Anders
I hate to correct spelling in newsgroups, but when it's the name of a wine...
That's "Morgon."
You echo my own thoughts, Timothy. I think that, historically, M-a-V was viewed as being the most serious and ageworthy Cru, with Morgon a close second. However, the rarity of good M-a-V has perhaps damaged its reputation in recent years/decades.
Mark Lipton
p.s. Whose '85 did you have?
p.p.s. When I was visiting Beaujolais in '01, a vigneron there told me of recently opening a '47 Fleurie that he said was delicious and still alive.
I a recent issue of "Revue du Vin de France" Michel Bettane tasted several Cru vintages back to 1929, iirc, and all except one was phantastic.
M.
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