Jean Francois Merieau Touraine Vieilles Vignes Boa le rouge

Pretty rough stuff on this go-round, but brilliant with Thai food. A wine that essentially demanded a culinary partner.

Perhaps the most confusing wine personality I've ever encountered. Certainly a better wine on day 2, and that's about all I can say. Old vine Gamay from Touraine, organic-perhaps even biodynamic-viticulture. Has to be tasted to understand; so massively different from Cru Beaujolais, tasting as if this were half Cabernet, half underripe Syrah. Wild, weird, not much more to say than that. (Note originally written 9/20/2009) (9/22/2009) I just happened to be reading a TN on the 2006 Persia bottling …