Doesn't sound anything like the delish 09s I remember so fondly.
In my fall article on Beaujolais I made the comment that the '11 Beaujolais were some of the best I've ever tasted. Having a few bottles since the initial tasting and I am convinced that it is at least a very good vintage, if not deserving of the "best ever" tag. But I still think that it is an incredibly clean, precise and tasty vintage. I have not had a bad one. Whether it will be a long lived vintage will be determined (though probably not), but like the '07 Bordeaux, what's wrong with drinking a pleasant wine young? But let's remember what Beaujolais traditionally is, a no non-sense, early drinking, food friendly, go-along, get-along wine. A fact that we often forget. And as for DeBoeuf, for a lot of us this "is" Beaujolais, and is a better than average representation. In the bigger markets you will no doubt get more interesting wines, but (I'm in SC) we get mostly DeBoeuf (and usually quite a good selection), and in my last blind tasting his wines came in #1 and #2, followed by some very nice Kermit Lynch, et. al., out of 16 wines. I think would all agree that Beaujolais is one of the world's great wine values.
