This light-bodied red shows good concentration, featuring a supple profile that displays ripe black cherry and raspberry flavors, detailed with mocha, spice and floral elements through the richly laced finish. Drink now through 2025. 300 cases made, 110 cases imported.??–GS??Region: France / Beaujolais / Moulin-à-Vent Select to Add

This supple, light-bodied red packs cherry, red currant and raspberry fruit, edged by floral and tangy elements, with a glossy texture. Ample licorice and spice details linger into the long finish. Drink now through 2024. 300 cases made, 110 cases imported.??–GS??Region: France / Beaujolais / Moulin-à-Vent Select to Add

The pureed raspberry, pekoe tea leaf and pomegranate notes are underscored by a minerally hint of wet stone in this fresh red. Lightly chewy, with a subtle finish. Drink now through 2018. 42 cases imported.??–AN??Region: France / Beaujolais / Moulin-à-Vent Select to Add

From a property new to the Duboeuf line-up, their 2010 Moulin-a-Vent Domaine de la Vigne Romaine offers scents and flavors of sour cherry and black raspberry shadowed by their distilled counterparts. A seedy sense of invigorating tartness and bitterness as well as a firm palate feel emerge in a finish that I suspect is suffering more from the effects of its recent bottling than from wood-induced drying. It probably has several years of potential. George Duboeuf and his estate-collaborators – for further general comments on whom consult my issue 190 report – harvested from mid-September into the first week of October and pronounced themselves reasonably satisfied with the size of their crop as well as its quality. Most of the fruit came in at between 12-12.5% alcohol, with only a small share being chaptalized. And while the manner of extraction typically practiced chez Duboeuf strikes me as serving for rather uniformly deep colors, Duboeuf remarked that the 2010s colored with particular, and surprising, ease. The percentage of wines bottled at the time of my June visit was, predictably, considerably higher than had been the case for the 2009s at the same point on the calendar. Observing conventions established in the aforementioned previous report, I have made reference to aging potential only for any wines that I expect might be worth following for longer than a couple of years, and where I have identified a wine solely by appellation, it represents a so-called “Selections Georges Duboeuf” cuvee, adorned with his company’s signature flower labels. I also tasted on this occasion several late-released, wooded “prestige” bottlings – rendered in 1,000-2,500 volumes – which however were not destined to appear in U.S. markets.Importer: William Deutsch & Son Ltd., White Plains, NY; tel. (914) 251-9463