13.1% acl. $15 at my local retailer.
It's hot. I was thinking about dinner and what wine I wanted to drink. Omelette, salad. Forget white. I wanted red. Beaujolais. I thought about opening a 2006 Jean-Paul Thevenet Morgon Vieilles Vignes to compare with David Bueker's notes on the 2005. I surveyed my collection of Beaujolais and spotted the Bone-Jolly. I'd loved the Rosé and had read good things about Steve's wines, so I decided to try it. I couldn't quite figure out the nose - not fruit so much as something green, spicy, maybe floral, but inviting, the color a lovely garnett. I took a sip. The fruit in this wine is present but nicely restrained, mostly towards the red - sour cherry, raspberry, strawberry end of things - but with a good bite. It has a white pepper, zingy, livliness on the toungue. It's deeper and more complex than many Beaujolais, but still light enough to be a good summer wine - smooth substantial mouth feel, lively acidity, juicy tannins, nice long stimulating finish. In a word, lovely. I had intended to share a half of the bottle with my wife and shelve the rest, but we kept pouring just a wee bit more, and soon it was all gone.