Tasted in Régnié-Durette with Cédric Lecareux, 13 February 2024.
Domaine Les Capreoles
La Plaigne
69430 Régnie-Durette
Tel: +33 4 74 65 57 83
www.capreoles.com
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Cédric on 2023:
A dream! And it’s similar to 2022 – they are very similar in style – but maybe 2023 is a hint better. A vintage where we had at least 20 alerts for hail but were only once hit – with 25% losses in Lantignié. Still, slightly more yield than in 2022 and with a great aromatic. We started harvesting 13th September after the rain.
Cédric on 2022:
“In 22 we also had some big hailstones one day but in general, it’s a super year – we had double the normal rainfall in June – probably just as well as it was so dry in July – we also had about 40 mm during the harvest. We started harvesting 28th August – that was really early – yet a lot of people were already harvesting the 15th!”
The wines…
I loved Cédric’s 2021s and I think his 22s are possibly even better – I’d be happy to have any of these wines in my cellar!
2022 Brouilly Hydrophobe
‘Always a contract harvested after we finished our own harvest.’ Bottled around March
Elegant pure red fruit – that’s a lovely aromatic invitation. In the mouth there is good mouth-filling volume, almost a hint of salinity and very red fruit. Modest finishing bitters and slowly fading. Mouth-watering, red fruit in the finish too. Holding with a little perfume too. Super wine.
2022 Morgon l’Impernanance
From Les Charmes – one year of elevage in barrel – bottled mid-October.
A larger and more sumptuous nose – rounded by the barrel. In the mouth rounder too – framed by a small tannin and slowly some creaminess of the barrel in the flavours. But this is a juicy, delicious wine. I’d wait 2 years for the oak to fade – but what a delicious wine!
The lower vines of the domaine so more accumulated depth soil here before you hit the rock. This with mainly tank elevage. Bottled just after Easter – so mid-April
More airy but also has more precise aromatic complexity. Direct but still wine of breadth, faintly grained by the tannin – but with such energy – faintly cushioned – I love it! Small finishing bitters bring more energy – long… Potentially a great one!
2022 Régnié Diaclase
It’s a big block of vines behind that they but split into 9 different sectors, this from the higher part. Dominantly destemmed in this case. Longer elevage – bottled in October.
A fuller nose – very wide – rounded at the edges by the barrel elevage. More fluid, just as juicy – a little less structural definition vs the Chamodère but what a delicious wine – oaked but less obviously than the ‘l’Impernance’ – this finish also with breadth but darker fruit and faintly spiced/saline. Holding superbly in this finish.
2022 Régnié Sous la Croix
The high part of the parcel – not much soil here, just 20-30cm over the granite. A wine that’s completely destemmed for the fermentation.
Fine depth to this colour. Almost a toasty note of reduction here. Hmm, but what a beautifully fluid balance to the concentration – complex, faint coffee notes, an extra complexity here in the middle and finishing flavours – mouth-watering but even a little calm vs some others here yet with a lovely texture. Really an executive depth and style to this finish – it’s a great finish.
For the road – how about a 2023?
Already in bottle for one month:
2023(!) Beaujolais-Lantignié l’Amourgandise
Plenty of colour – but less! Quite an airy, floral perfume – redder fruit supporting. That’s a lovely combination of mouth-filling volume, with a mm of cushion, and easy red, slightly carbonic fruit flavour. That’s a wonderful early look at 23…