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Wine of the Week: Morgon Clos du Vieux Bourg ‘Cinq Terres’ 2020

Wine of the Week: Morgon Clos du Vieux Bourg ‘Cinq Terres’ 2020

Don’t buy cheap pinot noir, get this Beaujolais instead.

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Henry Jeffreys
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Over the last couple of weeks I tasted various affordable pinot noirs for BBC Good Food magazine. It was a dispiriting experience, the wines ranged from green and bitter on one hand, to synthetically jammy on the other (stand up California!) Happily I did find a few I liked, you can read the results here. But a bottle I was sent by Wickham Wines* knocked them all into a cocked hat and it’s only £16.

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