Tasted with Jean-Paul Dubost in Lantignié, 25 February 2021.
Domaine Jean-Paul Dubost
9 Impasse du Tracot
69430 Lantignié
Tel: +33 4 74 04 87 51
www.domainedubost.com
Other reports with Jean-Paul Dubost.
Jean-Paul on 2021:
“Just half a harvest in 2021 – just about! Our Fleurie and Moulin à Vent are at low altitude so took plenty of the frost. Most of the rest of our losses were down to mildew – I’ve never had to fight it so hard – I was having to treat despite rain!”
Jean-Paul on 2020:
“It’s a good vintage and we had more volume – though most of the wine is allocated or sold now. I finished bottling the 2020s in January, most were done by the end of last year though. I think it’s a good vintage and has typical Beaujolais characteristics. Not too ripe – not like in 2018…”
The wines…
A number of these wines were accented (or more) by pyrazine – There are some very good wines here but I personally much preferred JP’s 2019s…
2020 Beaujolais Lantignié Chardonnay
Alluvial terrain of about one hectare – nothing to do with granite here says JP. Planted to white in 2006.
Open, a little golden fruit. Ripe in the mouth too – good direction and a melting flavour – mineral and not too much rigour. This is good.
2020 Beaujolais-Lantignié
Fresh – good attack – a graphite minerality running through the darker red fruit nose. Direct, nice cut to this wine vibrant and suffused with the mineral aspect – very attractive this.
2020 Brouilly Vieilles-Vignes
Here’s a bit of pyrazine mixed with the florals. Narrower, more direct, melting with juicy flavour. The greens a little through the flavour too – but not excessive. Good and with a really excellent finish but, overall, I prefer the Lantignié
2020 Brouilly Pierreux
2 ha here.
A deeper nose, no pyrazine becoming more floral – that’s lovely. Vibrant, great attack very wide and mineral – a wine of structure that I’d wait for. That’s very good, practically excellent
2020 Morgon La Ballofière
High in Morgon near St.Joseph
A sleek and fresh red-fruited nose. Pure, super clarity here – a little structural austerity but that will pass in 12 months. The fruit is pure and delicious – really a mouth-watering finish too. Super finishing – narrow but intense.
2020 Fleurie Le Vivier
From the bottom of the appellation near Moulin à Vent. ‘Always a constituted wine’
A very broad nose – again with some pyrazine. Wine – vibrant – lots of acidity – really a lot of pyrazine so not my style.
2020 Moulin à Vent En Brenay
There’s a little pyrazine in this wine too – but also a more attractive and forward dark fruit in support. Starting very well – sleek, fine-textured, growing in width – that’s got a really fine finish – lots of tasty complexity and generosity to the flavour here. Very good!