2015 Moulin a Vent La Rochelle

We are huge fans of Olivier Merlin’s wines – but our favourite by far is his Moulin a Vent ‘La Rochelle’. In the last truly outstanding vintage for Beaujolais (2009) Allen Meadows simply stated “This is one very, very serious Bojo with flat out superb length. Buy it”. We took his advice and sold every parcel we could get our hands on. 2015 is the best vintage since 2009 for Beaujolais – indeed based on our recent tastings it’s quite possibly better – and is being heralded as the best vintage for Burgundy as a whole since 2005. For the value this wine offers I recommend buying as much as you can store, especially as I do not expect the word ‘value’ to feature heavily in many 2015 Burgundy offers to come! Made from incredible 77 year old vines in one of the region’s most celebrated vineyards, Merlin’s ‘La Rochelle’ is a concentrated and intensely flavoured style of Beaujolais which drinks beautifully young but also has superb ageing potential. As yet unscored, given the pedigree of the 2015 vintage, the quotes from the critics below and the following this wine has, it will be sold out long before the critics publish their notes.