Tasted with Anne-Sophie Dubois in Fleurie, 11 February 2022.
Domaine Anne-Sophie Dubois
Les Labourons
69820 Fleurie
Tel: +33 4 74 69 84 45
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More reports with Domaine Anne-Sophie Dubois
Anne-Sophie on 2021:
“Almost 15 hl/hl – I’ve never made so little. We don’t frost so easily here but it was just one night – it was the Tuesday – and the damage was done.”
Anne-Sophie on 2020:
“My earliest harvest – 02 September! it was 05 September in 2018. The volume was ‘average’ – a year of calm viticulture. It was a hot year but there’s a lovely balance to the wines and we didn’t have any blockage of maturity or have the harsher tannins that we sometimes saw in 2018 for example. We were short of rain so that was probably the main reason for the lower volume.”
The wines…
Always a pleasure to taste here sometimes with the dog, sometimes with the cat, or sometimes with both in attendance. VERY high quality wines here.
Bottled in September – about 12 months elevage with part wood and part tank elevage, the tendency here is reducing the amount of barrel elevage.
A fine, wide, nose – properly Fleurie and with nicely supporting mineral tones too. Fresh, fluid, direct but then beautifully melting over the palate. Lovely finishing waves of freshness with an attractive extra herb in the complexity – long and faintly saline too. Bravo…
2020 Fleurie Les Labourons
Also a forward and very attractive nose – more emphasis on the complexity of the floral perfume but still with a width of fine red-cherry fruit. A little rounder, almost no grain from this tannin – it’s a beautiful texture. More sucrosity in the finish here – that’s an excellent wine!