2015 Beaujolais Preview: Atypically Brawny
but Often Excellent
BY JOSH RAYNOLDS |
While Beaujolais has been on as strong a roll as any wine
region in France over most of the last decade, the 2015 vintage in Beaujolais has
been receiving more attention than any I can recall, including the outstanding 2014 and 2013. But do the ‘15s justify the hype, especially for veteran fans of
these wines?
Blue and pink granite, two of the great soils of Beaujolais, collide, quite literally, on the hilltops of Morgon
While Beaujolais has been on as strong a roll as any wine region in France over most of the last decade, the 2015 vintage in Beaujolais has been receiving more attention than any I can recall, including the outstanding 2014 and 2013. But do the ‘15s justify the hype, especially for veteran fans of these wines?
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Producers in this Article
- Alain Michaud
- Alexandre Burgaud
- Anne-Sophie Dubois
- Arnaud Briday
- Bernard Santé
- Cave du Château des Loges
- Château Cambon
- Château de Bellevue
- Château de Cercy
- Château de Chanzé
- Château de Chénas
- Château de Corcelles
- Château de Durette
- Château de Fleurie
- Château de La Chaize
- Château de Pizay
- Château de Pravins/Isabel Brossard
- Château des Pertonnières
- Château des Ravatys
- Château des Vergers
- Château du Chatelard
- Château Gaillard/Sébastien Gutty
- Christophe Pacalet
- Clos de la Roilette/Alain Coudert
- Clos des Poulettes
- Domaine Bertrand
- Domaine Chasselay
- Domaine Cordier Père et Fils
- Domaine de Buis Rond
- Domaine de Gry-Sablon/Dominique Morel
- Domaine de la Bouronière
- Domaine de la Grume/Nicolas Boudeau
- Domaine de la Madone
- Domaine de la Revole
- Domaine de la Simonde/Bruno Monfray
- Domaine de Montvaillant/Bruno et Chantal Adamiak
- Domaine des Poutoux
- Domaine de Tante Alice
- Domaine du Charverron
- Domaine du Pavillon de Chavannes
- Domaine Duperray
- Domaine du Petit Pérou/Laurent Thevenet
- Domaine du Vissoux/Pierre-Marie Chermette
- Domaine Flache Sornay
- Domaine Girin
- Domaine Joncy
- Domaine Lathuilière Gravallon
- Domaine Le Fagolet
- Domaine Les Capréoles
- Domaine Marronnier Rose
- Domaine Monternot
- Domaine Raphaël Chopin
- Domaine Tano Péchard
- Domaine Versant du Soleil
- Dominique Piron
- Emmanuel Fellot
- Fabien Forest
- Florent Descombe
- Florent Rude
- Frédéric Montangeron
- Henry Fessy
- Jacques Depagneux
- Jean-Guillaume Passot
- Jean Loron
- Jean-Marc Burgaud
- Jean-Marc Laforest
- Jean-Michel Dupré
- Jean-Pierre Morlet
- J.P. Rivière
- Labouré-Roi
- Laurent Gauthier
- Les Frères Perroud
- Lionel Manigand
- Lucien Lardy
- Maison des Bulliats
- Maison Jadot
- Manoir du Carra
- Mathilde et Stephen Durieu
- Michèle et François Descombes
- Michel Guignier
- Mommesin
- Nicolas Chemarin
- Nicolas Potel
- Olivier Pézenneau
- Pardon & Fils
- Pascal Aufranc
- Patrick Bouland
- Paul-André Brossette & Fils
- P. Ferraud & Fils
- Roland Pignard
- Romain Jambon
- Vignerons de Bel Air
- Vignerons des Pierres Dorées
- Vignobles Bodillard
- Vignobles Bulliat
- Vincent Audras/Clos de Haute-Combe
- Vins Descombe
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