🏆 Maxi Best-Of Beaujolais

COMPOSITION 

Box composed of 6 bottles (6 x 75 cl):

• Brouilly 2018 - Alex Foillard
• Régnié 2022 - Marine Bonnet and Pierre Cotton
• Beaujolais Villages - Prémices 2022 - Winery Dufaitre 
• Morgon 2023 - Winery Marcel Lapierre
• Morgon Côte de Py 2022 - Jean Foillard
• Beaujolais Villages - Tentation 2023 - Jean Claude Lapalu

WHY BE TEMPTED :

• 6 must-see Beaujolais!

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Getting started: 

1/ Alex Foillard, brings out of his cellar a Brouilly on 2018 that we had the opportunity to taste again at the Beaujoloise shows in April 2024. This Brouilly is a perfect example of what the years in bottle bring to Gamay: aromatic complexity with evolved notes while retaining freshness. A perfect skeleton, with fine tannins and great fluidity!

Next up is 2/ Régnié 2022 by Marine Bonnet and Pierre Cotton. Did you know that Régnié was the last of the crus to join the list of 9 other Beaujolais crus in 1988: a list of 10 crus!

Marine and Pierre's work is extremely precise, with very old vines. This Régnié is dense and complex, and will no doubt still be dashing and young in a few years' time!

Then a very tasty, fresh, fluid, juicy wine, the cuvée :

3/ Prémices 2022 on the appellation Beaujolais Villages de Rémy et Laurence (Winery Dufaitre). It is the crisp wine of Box (We'd love to bite into it!)

And 3 other "Beaujolais" wines from our selection that we like 

4/ Morgon 2023 - Winery Marcel Lapierre. This is a wine, a Morgon, a Winery must-have, given Marcel Lapierre's pioneering role in the 'natural' wine movement. His children have taken up the torch since 2010, and play in the perfect continuity of this work: carbonic maceration in whole bunches, gentle, little extraction, preserving the freshness, fruit and skeleton of the Gamay grape, and adding little or no sulfite. This cuvée is the version without added sulfite.

Next, the famous 5/ Morgon Côte de Py by Jean Foillard from the 2022 vintage.
Jean Foillard is from the Marcel Lapierre school, an outstanding winemaker who has managed to tame this terroir to give his wines a little more touch and immediacy (drinkability).The Py climate is the best known on an ancient volcano with special soils, rich in basalt, 350m altitude. This terroir produces dense wines with red and black fruit and kirsch notes. It's a climate with great ageing potential.

Finally, to end on a recent discovery,
6/ Beaujolais Villages - Tentation 2023 - Jean-Claude Lapalu. Feel like biting into some red fruit (for pleasure)
This is still one of our favorite cuvées . Thanks Jean Claude!