The Grillé-Midi vineyard is one of the finest in all the Beaujolais Crus, with it straddling the boundary between Fleurie and Chiroubles. Since I first tasted this wine from Pauline Passot in the 2018 vintage, it has quickly become one of my absolute favorites in the region and the 2022 version is another brilliant young wine. The wine is beautifully precise and perfumed on the nose, showing a more red fruity streak than the lovely aux Craz bottling, delivering scents of cherries, pomegranate, a lovely touch of blood orange, gamebird, roses, peonies, just a whisper of nutskin, woodsmoke and a very complex foundation of soil tones. On the palate the wine is elegant, full-bodied, beautifully soil-driven and sappy at the core, with seamless balance, great focus and grip, ripe, well-integrated tannins and a long, complex and vibrant finish. I love the backend lift on this wine, which is approachable out of the blocks, but still only showing a modicum of its ultimate complexity and truly deserves at least a handful of years in the cellar before broaching!
95 points, John Gilman, View From The Cellar (Dec 2023)
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