2019 Jean Foillard Morgon Fleurie
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Dark, bright-rimmed ruby. Incisive, spice-accented red and blue fruit and allspice scents show excellent clarity and pick up floral and smoky mineral flourishes with air. Juicy and alluringly sweet, offering vibrant black raspberry, boysenberry and five-spice powder flavors that deepen through the midpalate. Shows impressive energy and finishes seamless and impressively long, with discreet tannins and a strong echo of juicy red fruit.
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In 2018, the Foillard family purchased a three-hectare parcel in lieu-dit Champagne, adjacent to Jean-Louis Dutraive's holdings, so that's the source of the 2019 Fleurie, superseding their previous suppliers of fruit. Exhibiting aromas of cherries, smoky berries, loamy soil, spices and potpourri, it's medium to full-bodied, velvety and charming, with fine depth at the core, lively acids and a sapid finish.
This has such a deep and delicate nose of black cherry, violet, wet earth and spice! Excellent concentration and stunning elegance, in spite of a serious tannin structure that gives this so much drive and energy at the stunningly fresh finish. Drink or hold.