David-Beaupère – 2020

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Louis-Clement David-Beaupère 2022 Domaine David-BeaupèreTasted with Louis-Clement David-Beaupère in La Bottière, 17 February 2022.

Domaine David-Beaupère
La Bottière
69840 Juliénas
Tel: +33 9 75 92 61 19
www.domainedavidbeaupere.fr
More reports with Domaine David-Beaupère

Louis-Clement on 2021:
We were very lucky – I know we are not many but we had almost a normal yield in 2021. In 21 we also had the new cuverie and I’m happy that it’s brought a bit more precision to our 2021s – I’m happy with the progression that we are making.

Louis-Clement on 2020:
2020 made a generous vintage, more than in 2018! Certainly an early vintage – we finished in August – but it was an easy year in the vines and with good degrees of ripeness too – 12° for the Trois Verres. Though most is now sold. My sister is here since 2019 too, so this was her first full vintage.

The wines…

Always delicious, dangerously drinkable wines at this estate – a little extra sweetness to watch out for in the Bottière this year.

2020 Beaujolais Villages Les Trois Verres
Bottled in August – just before the harvest. Chapelle de Guinchay – half a hectare of vines that belong to the family of Jules Chauvet.
Light colour again. Deeper, more layered nose, faintly lactic, almost some struck-match, but very inviting. Impact, freshness – lovely red fruit. A small grain of tannin like the 2020 Beaujolais. A That’s a nicely airy, red-fruited wine. Supple, easy and delicious over the palate – absolutely the classic style of the domaine – mineral and even a little slaine in the moreish finish. Yum!

2020 Juliénas La Bottière
A nose of more volume, vibrancy and complexity. Broader, fresher a little more incisive. But with depth and layers to the flavour too – there’s extra sucrosity (it turns out that there’s about 1g of residual sugar) but also a small austerity – I would wait a year or so before attacking but there’s a lot extra here today – but I’d be drinking the prior wine today.

2018 Julienas Vayolette
From the west of the appellation on a plain south-facing, steep slope, the soil is bluestone. Have a 3ha parcel. ‘I adore this vintage I think it tendu and fin – I think the third winter has really put it in place. Zero added sulfur – I thought the wine was in a great place at the time of bottling so chose to leave it like that.’ Was bottled in August 2020.
A little more colour. Extra freshness in this nose if not quite the volume of the last. More direct, cool–fruit, extra complexity again – there’s extra intensity here too. A small sucrosity again but lower than the last – the fruit darker, cooler, cleaner more deliciously finishing this wine.

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