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This Biodynamic Saint Amour is light, delightfully floral, fruit-packed, spicy, and utterly wonderful to drink – wow!
This is truly dead-serious, terrific stuff at a very high level. I tasted the their 2019 and I fell in love with it. Now that I've finally tasted the 2020 I confirm that I'm still in love. We're so sure that you will be impressed far beyond your expectations. According to Lastbottlewines.com, this is perhaps one of the top two or three' Beaujolais on THE PLANET!
If you were expecting a fluid and light Saint-Amour, you missed it. It has the power of a Moulin-à-vent, but with the elegance of a Fleurie. I make my wines with love...said Countess Alexandra de Vazeilles who took over the property and made her first vintage in 2014.
She trained at Château Latour in Pauillac, Domaine Roulot, and other heavy hitters before taking the helm. There's no spritzy, bubble-gum, carbonic maceration here...These wines are fashioned in the same style as classic Burgundian pinot Noir.
Situated on lower slopes of a hillside, akin to the Grand Crus of Burgundy, where pink granite, alluvial rock, and clay soils intermingle.
The Saint-Amour from Château des Bachelards is produced from mid-slope, south-facing plots. The terroir is decomposed black granite with veins of loess and clay. The soil is deep, giving the wine surprisingly dense tannins and great uprightness. This is a Saint-Amour made for laying down, but already ready to drink in its youth. The very old Gamay vines, the indigenous grape variety and the only red grape variety grown at Château des Bachelards, thrive wonderfully on our acidic, more or less weathered granite soils. Like all her wines, this wine is fully Biodynamic too!
This wine is characterized by its class, its length and its freshness. - Robe : deep and luminous garnet
The aromas are very floral of peony and rose with nuances of hyacinth coupled with liquorice.
On the palate, the mouthfeel is velvety and the tannins are silky, the concentration of this wine is astonishing and masks a beautiful tannic density which will allow it to evolve very favorably in time. The wine is ample, complex, dense, full-bodied, with notes of fresh blackberry of great purity and an astonishing rebound on the finish. It is a wine that is both supple and dense and deserves to be served with haute cuisine.
Drink now to enjoy the fruit, or in 20 years as well. A Saint-Amour that is certainly chic, but shockingly deep. The color is relatively dark garnet with aromas of black cherry, nutmeg and black currant. The attack in mouth is ample with power, the middle of mouth is still relatively tannic, but well coated by a nice velvet, the finish is expressive and of a nice complexity.
International Critic Ratings:
93/100
