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2016 Maison L'Envoye Morgon Cote du Py Beaujolais 750 ml
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This is your chance to claim the perfect summer red wine.
No matter how you celebrate, this time of year calls for a red wine that can do it all: It has to shine on its own, to keep you cool when the mercury hits triple-digit highs, and keep the pool party going long after the sun has set. Very few wines are built for the task, and when we find one—like the Wine Spectator “Smart Buy” 2016 Maison L'Envoyé Morgon Côte du Py Beaujolais—we suggest stocking up on a case.
Cru Beaujolais—produced from one of Beaujolais’ ten sub-appellations—offers the verve and range of Beaujolais and Pinot Noir, along with an age-worthiness and a knack for expressing terroir that can escape wines with bearing the broader Beaujolais label.
Count Mark Tarlov among the wine world personalities who is worth following, no matter where his fancy takes him. The Hollywood-producer-turned-vintner founded Maison L’Envoyé in 2011, driven by the mission to cultivate and vinify Burgundy-style wines from the spots on the globe that do them best. In addition to New Zealand, Oregon, and Tasmania, Tarlov’s quest has taken him, naturally, to Burgundy, There he has quickly climbed the ladder of respectability among the elite producers of Cru Beaujolais by producing top-quality, elegant, powerful, and restrained red wines. In 2015, Wine & Spirits Magazine named Tarlov’s Maison L’Envoyé a “winery to watch,” citing its “top-flight fruit” in wines offered “at remarkably low prices.”
The 2016 Maison L'Envoyé Côte du Py is grown in the hard black soils that mark one of the most storied spots in the Morgon Cru appellation. Fermented with natural yeast and aged for 8 months in seasoned oak barrels, this wine is a do-it-all beauty that boasts tons of high-toned red fruit, and is deepened by cinnamon, clove, and complex baking spice. There is truly never a bad time for a red wine like this one—especially when the temperatures start to rise.
The result of Tarlov’s labor is a beautifully high-toned, red-fruited wine with generous baking spice complexity, and a backbone of tea-like tannins that make it positively sing. Truly, it doesn’t matter what’s on the table, as long as there’s enough Maison L’Envoyé to go around.