Tasted in Vaux en Beaujolais with Bruno Bérerd, 28 February 2023.
Domaine de la Madone – Frères Bérerd
Le Bourg
69460 Le Perréon
Tel: +33 4 74 03 21 85
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Bruno on 2022 & 2021:
“With 2022 I’m very happy – we have both quantity and quality. We got a bit more rain than our neighbours and the volume was correct.
“2021 brought a little less volume but nothing catastrophic – I think it was better to have a lower volume in 2021 to get the maturity – they are wines of charm and with plenty of floral character.”
The wines…
Bruno has made some great BJV cuvées – it’s worth a special search for these!
Mid-slope vines here – no sulfur during elevage only a little for the bottling
Lots of colour. This is a broad, silky, incisive wine with super clarity. Supple, concentrated silky despite some small grain of tannin – ultra fruity but neither too much nor too sweet – that’s a great mouthful of wine and energy – bravo!
Multiple parcels – about 20% from carbonic, the rest destemmed – looking for a balance in the wine.
This is a lovely, aromatic, wine – florally attractive – it’s a lovely invitation. Broad, rather concentrated for the vintage – holding a nice line of slightly graphite-accented finishing flavour – slowly mouthwatering – a great 21!
Quite strongly frosted in this area
Like the last, lots of colour for the vintage. A fuller nose – slightly saline too – The fruit concentrated at the base – not so open. In the mouth, this is a hint more structural – more tannin showing today too. The finish has extra floral complexity – that’s a great finish – potentially a great wine too – I would wait, perhaps, 2 years for all the structure to soften!
2022(!) Beaujolais Villages Le Rosé
Vines with altitude. Only the start of the press – a wine of press – no malo, bottled 1 month – ‘I’m looking for a wine of freshness not sugar.’
Not a large-scale nose but still an attractive one. Clean, broad, mouth-watering wine – not from an obviously ripe vintage – it’s better this way! Simply excellent!
Les whites:
2022(!) Beaujolais Villages Blanc Vers le Bois
‘I had to make a first bottling in January – the clients HAD to have it. One-third is new oak.’
This nose has a roundness, some freshness and there’s plenty of barrel showing. The oak is less overt in the first flavours – a fruit that’s ripe and even has a faint tannin. It’s round and could use a bit more energy in the finish – there’s length and there’s no rigour. Good wine.