Rotting flesh and gas-station restroom, over-run with a milky summer sausage and pencil-eraser, an embarrassing version of Fleurie and a gaseous, salt-pond example of Gamay. No fruit to speak of, chalk and acid put on a tastebud-raising mouth-show disappearing into watery nothingness within seconds of entry. No finish, count to ten, and dryness evacuates the finish. I’ve drank this from 70° to 55° and nothing works–it’s just a flat-out bad bojo deserving of sangria-duty or drain-sanitizing.

2015 CHATEAU DE PONCÉ ‘Le Pré Roi’ Gamay Fleurie Beaujolais France 13.5

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