Chateau du Moulin-a-Vent 2011
Chateau du Moulin-a-Vent 2011
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44 double magnums available
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One double magnum of Chateau du Moulin-a-Vent 2011, offered In Bond from one of our suppliers, usually ready 6 to 8 weeks after your order is confirmed. Price per bottle, In Bond UK.
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Price per double magnum £77.00 In Bond, excludes duty and VATIn bond price. Duty and VAT quoted on enquiry
44 available, 1x300cl
Offered in bond. Duty and VAT are not included and become payable only if the wine is withdrawn from bond. Transfers between bonded accounts are arranged by our team after purchase.
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- Format
- 1x300cl
- Vintage
- 2011
- Producer
- Chateau du Moulin-a-Vent
- Origin
- Beaujolais Crus, France
- Type
- Red
- Duty status
- In Bond
- Availability
- From our supplier, 6 to 8 weeks
What the critics say
91 VMVinous, Antonio Galloni, 01-10-2020
The 2011 Moulin-à-Vent offers an intriguing combination of pliant fruit, nervy acids and aromatic complexity. Sweet tobacco, leather, game and earthiness all open up over time. It is a wine that really benefits from aeration. Overall, the 2011 is a vintage defined by its energy.
Drink 2020 to 2025
90-91 WAWine Advocate, David Schildknecht, 28-06-2013
Raised in older barriques as well as tank and sourced primarily from the Les Caves, La Roche and Le Moulin-a-Vent lieux-dits, Chateau du Moulin-a-Vent’s “grand vin” 2011 Moulin-a-Vent – which I last tasted from tank soon after its assemblage and just ahead of its end-of-year bottling – features richly ripe black raspberry with distilled framboise and holly berry overtones. A bite of black pepper and clove adds to the piquancy on a firm palate and reinforces the spicy influence of toasty (albeit here previously used) barrels. While less alluringly savory or floral (for now, at least) than its ostensibly lesser “Les Terrasses du Chateau” sibling, this undeniably musters more sheer intensity and persistence, its juiciness outlasting any oak influence. Look for fine performance through 2016. Jean-Jacques Parinet’s team (see my extended introduction in Issue 196 for more on them) continues their ambitious revival of this venerable estate as well as the consolidation of its former vineyard surface. The Chateau now farms a total of 92 acres following acquisition of the formerly (and briefly) Girardin-owned Tour du Bief property, the wines from which will be issued under a separate label that I was not yet able to see, so for now I am reporting on them as part of and under the name of Chateau du Moulin-a-Vent. (For more about the effects of this new ownership, see my notes under “Tour du Bief” in this issue on the wine that Girardin continues to make from a portion of his former holdings.) Around half of the Chateau du Moulin-a-Vent vineyards are now farmed under an organic regimen, which will expand to soon encompass its entirety; and about half the fruit is sold off in bulk so as to retain only the best for estate production, a ratio that may or may not change much depending on how the vines and soils respond to their relatively new owner and the market responds to his wines. I have already expressed in Issue 196 my reservations about the way the new-ish 350- and (for Champ de Cour 50% new) 228-liter barrels have influenced some of these wines. I worry lest the frequent flattery directed toward them as “Burgundy-like” will over-influence the domaine’s approach in the cellar and handicap its ability to reveal the unique distinction of Gamay on great granite soils. I certainly have no reservations, though, about the practice of relatively late-bottling and of late-release for wines intended to be cellared, and the 2011s are only now – in spring, 2013 – poised to enter the market. By any standards, the Chateau du Moulin-a-Vent wines are already impressive. (For notes on the sites they single-out for bottling, consult my notes on the 2010s both in Issue 196 and below.) There is still no U.S. importer for this estate, though plans are in the offing.
Drink 2013 to 2016
Scores supplied through Liv-ex
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