WTN: A lovely rosé and a Beaujolais

• 2007 Château de Berne Côtes de Provence Terres de Berne - France, Provence, Côtes de Provence (8/9/2008)
  12,48€; 13,5% abv. Salmon pink. The scent is very pleasant with strawberry supported by minerals - refreshing, rather than cloying. Light but ripe fruit, perfectly decent structure though not terribly high in acidity, very refreshing and charming. It finishes very dry and mineral, which is nice. I sometimes find S. French rosés too heavy and sweetly fruity, but this isn't only about southern sun, but has charming structure, too. I'll buy again.
• 2006 Domaine Jean-Marc Burgaud Morgon Côte du Py - France, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Morgon (8/9/2008)
  13% abv; 16,98€. Day one: a little bit of plastic and reduction, quite closed and hard: gravel and raspberry. Day two: A lovely open scent of gravel and raspberry, a little bit peppery, earthy and gamy/bloody (I wouldn't be surprised if this became more like N. Rhone than Burgundy with age). I find the slight tartness to be very charming. This is well structured, and gladly has none of that bubblegum-estery fruit that so many Beaujolais have, but still has raspberried fruit. Mineral, savoury and gravelly aftertaste. Needs a bit of age, but is really charming even now. I think I will buy very many of these...

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[David M. Bueker]

Understanding the horrid prices of the monopoly that's not a bad price for the Beaujolais.

..that's not a bad price for the Beaujolais.

Yes, and it's also a very precise price for the Beaujolais.

[David M. Bueker]

The exact price didn't phase me, as it's standard practice for a local shop to price things with .98 when they are non-discountable, and .99 when they are.

Understanding the horrid prices of the monopoly that's not a bad price for the Beaujolais.

All the more remarkable since this is from the special order selection where wines are usually even more outrageously priced than usual!

Rahsaan, something wrong with precision?

-O

[James Roscoe]

Understanding the horrid prices of the monopoly that's not a bad price for the Beaujolais.

All the more remarkable since this is from the special order selection where wines are usually even more outrageously priced than usual!

Rahsaan, something wrong with precision?

-O

Isn't Rashaan a literature guy? No precision there!

Nicely done. I wish I had seen this note before my rosé party. I would have looked for it.

Isn't Rashaan a literature guy? No precision there!

I don't know what Rashaan does. Rahsaan enjoys literature (at the moment Broch's The Death of Virgil), although it is not his professional field.

But if you think there is no precision in literature you obviously haven't read the good stuff.