While the setting is simple, the handcrafted wines, particularly the pinot noirs, are complex and delicious.

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Beaujolais can be rather simple in its most basic incarnation but some wines, especially those from the Beaujolais crus (the nine prestigious subdistricts), can be surprisingly complex, even Burgundy-like.

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