2018 Fleurie Joie du Palais Lafarge Vial, Burgund (0,75l)

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2018 Fleurie Joie du Palais, Lafarge Vial

Beautifully vibrant and precise, the 2018 Fleurie Joie de Palais wafts from the glass with a pretty bouquet of raspberries, red plums, peonies and sweet soil tones. Medium to full-bodied, lively and elegant, it's built around fine, powdery tannins and a tangy spine of acidity. Built for the cellar, this will show beautifully after four or five years of bottle aging, and it will continue to improve for a decade or more. This 1.5-hectare parcel of steeply sloping decomposed pink granite was planted in the 1950s. - William Kelley, May 2020

Allen Meadows' Burghound - 2018 Fleurie Joie du Palais, Lafarge Vial

Ripe and beautifully layered aromas offer up notes of poached plum, red and dark currant plus wisps of spice, warm earth and pepper. The succulent, delicious and dense medium weight flavors exude a subtle minerality on the powerful and serious flavors that are clearly built-to-age and are going to need at least some as this is very tightly wound. I wouldn't call this old school Beaujolais as there is no rusticity, but it is a far cry from the fruit and supple 'drink me now' style. - Allen Meadows, Apr. 2020