1997 Beaujolais-Villages AOC Cuvée Speciale, Beaujolais, France

Lively, appealing nose with ripe, partly dried red berries, dried flowers and some green tea, with a hint of milk chocolate. Elegant and juicy, ripe and rounded on the palate, at the same time quite firmly structured, light acid bite, boticeable but very fine tannins, very good persistence, some more green tea, a hint of lime, harmonious, very good finish. In surprisingly good condition, but really should be drunk now.

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