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The May 2017 Distinguished Cellar Auction, Part II
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Estimate: $60
2 lightly scuffed and lightly wine stained labels.
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91-93WA
"The 2015 Fleurie has a little more fruit intensity compared to the Régnié and the Morgon this year: wild strawberry and raspberry, a touch of wild heather developing with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, fresh and crisp with superb focus, plenty of mineralité here with a long and very precise finish. This may be the pick of Julien's wines this vintage although all three hit the spot. Julien Sunier seems to be one of the main drivers for the revolution that is sweeping through Beaujolais at the moment. He is an outgoing and outspoken winemaker, even predisposed to criticize his fellow vignerons' wines when I was tasting them at his winery high up on the hills in northern Beaujolais. If he ever tires of making wine he would make a fine if formidable wine critic. As usual he was in disarmingly candid form... "We cropped at 30 hl/ha in 2015," he told me. "I didn't want to go for power like in 2009 and 2010 because I am bored of that. The entire crop was aged in 10- to 15-year-old barrels. I don't care about color, I don't care about a lot of things these days. My wines should be drunk in the first 5 years." Julien Sunier's wines are certainly much more on the fresher, leaner side - terroir expressive wines that care little for the intensity of fruit and aim more for balance and tension."
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"The 2015 Fleurie has a little more fruit intensity compared to the Régnié and the Morgon this year: wild strawberry and raspberry, a touch of wild heather developing with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, fresh and crisp with superb focus, plenty of mineralité here with a long and very precise finish. This may be the pick of Julien's wines this vintage although all three hit the spot. Julien Sunier seems to be one of the main drivers for the revolution that is sweeping through Beaujolais at the moment. He is an outgoing and outspoken winemaker, even predisposed to criticize his fellow vignerons' wines when I was tasting them at his winery high up on the hills in northern Beaujolais. If he ever tires of making wine he would make a fine if formidable wine critic. As usual he was in disarmingly candid form... "We cropped at 30 hl/ha in 2015," he told me. "I didn't want to go for power like in 2009 and 2010 because I am bored of that. The entire crop was aged in 10- to 15-year-old barrels. I don't care about color, I don't care about a lot of things these days. My wines should be drunk in the first 5 years." Julien Sunier's wines are certainly much more on the fresher, leaner side - terroir expressive wines that care little for the intensity of fruit and aim more for balance and tension."
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