New Vintage, Same Value
by Dustin Soiseth
Once again, our Beaujolais producers have delivered a remarkable crop of delicious, terroir-driven wines at reasonable prices, each a distinct expression of one of Beaujolais’s crus. There are no generic blends here, no regional cuvées. These are honest-to-God small-production, “grand cru” Beaujolais, as Kermit likes to say. I don’t know how they do it, but I’m glad they do.
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