Wine in Beaujolais Villages

An easy-drinking wine made with high quality grapes grown in the southern part of Beaujolais. Soils are light, and allow a light, fresh expression of Gamay. The grapes are handpicked in whole bunches and cold soaking is longer than usual for Beaujolais.

This wonderful Beaujolais by Georges Deboeuf is intense cherry red in colour with aromatic notes of raspberries and blackcurrant and red berry flavours.

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Jean and Agnès Foillard took over his father’s domaine in 1980, and soon thereafter began to make Kermit Lynch customers very happy. Most of their vineyards are planted on the Côte du Py, the famed slope outside the town of Villié-Morgon and the pride of Morgon. These granite and schist soils sit on an alluvial fan at the highest point above the town and impart great complexity. However, great real estate is not the only key to Foillard’s success. Early on, Jean began to follow the teachings of Jules Chauvet, a traditionalist who defied everything that the more commercial brands were touting in the region. Jean and three other local vignerons, Marcel Lapierre, Jean-Paul Thévenet, and Guy Breton, soon joined in on the movement. This Gang of Four, as Kermit christened them, called for a return to the old practices of viticulture and vinification: starting with old vines, never using synthetic herbicides or pesticides, harvesting late, rigorously sorting to remove all but the healthiest grapes, adding minimal doses of sulfur dioxide or none at all, and refusing both chaptalization and filtration. The end result allows Morgon to express itself naturally, as it should be without the bubblegum and banana aromas of so many other Beaujolais available today. Its rustic structure, spicy notes, and mineral-laden backbone are what real Morgon is all about. This estate comprises nearly fourteen hectares. Foillard’s Morgons are deep, structured, and complex, with a velvety lushness that makes them irresistible when young despite their aging potential. Jean raises his wines in older barrels sourced from top estates in Burgundy, a logical decision for someone crafting Gamay in a Burgundian style. It is the passion and dedication of vignerons like this that have brought pride back to the crus of the Beaujolais. Traditional, whole cluster fermentation lasts from 15 days in concrete tank Aged 7 months in concrete tank Parcels located in Villié-Morgon, Lancié, Saint-Amour, and St-Etienne-La-Varenne

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A ripe, perfumed wine with black fruits and generous tannins, this is rich and juicy. It has structure as well as layers of delicious fruits that give the wine density while keeping freshness at the end.

Good with ham, charcuterie, cheese, pasta, mexican and/or asian dishes

Beaujolais Villages, thanks to climate change is evolving from a very light quaffer into a more serious age-able wine. The temperatures in Burgundy’s Beaujolais Region have been much warmer for the past eight years or so which has materially changed the nature of the Gamay grape – recent vintages, including the 2018 are medium bodied with much more pronounced structure and higher alcohol levels (14% on the 2018). Because irrigation of vines is prohibited in France the grapes are ripening earlier and deeper than had been the case traditionally but this makes the new generation of Beaujolais Villages taste more analogous to Grenache wines from the Rhône valley, more powerful wines with low acidity and a deep raspberry flavor. The 2018 vintage has sufficient tannins to enable it be aged for as much as eight to ten years and features a deep ruby hue.

From a single parcel, mixed terroir of clay, galet stones, and a majority of sand on granite gives this wine great complexity. Located at the very North of the Beaujolais. Organically-farmed, 50 years old vines planted on hills (430-450m altitude) with south-southwest exposure. Vinification in concrete tanks and ageing 100% in oak barrels for 5 months.

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The French revolution was fought by scrappy, working-class partisans that took up arms to fight for their freedom and equality. The peasant soldier unable to afford formal uniforms donned a “Bonnet Rouge” or Red Cap of Liberty to show their allegiance to the revolutionary cause. Now Bonnet Rouge carries the revolutionary spirit back to the Beaujolais region of France. For the past thirty years, the wine markets of the world have been flooded with mass-produced Beaujolais wine of poor quality and dubious craftsmanship. Despite this fact, artisanal winemaking has never been forgotten in Beaujolais. It has soldiered on by small winemakers making limited amounts of distinctive cru Beaujolais wine. Now Bonnet Rouge has partnered with top winemakers in Beaujolais to produce a top-quality Beaujolais Gamay Noir. Breaking free of the traditional hierarchies of French winemaking, Bonnet Rouge is a blended wine from different premium cru Beaujolais vineyards to create wine of character and distinction. VIVE LA REVOLUTION! The Gamay Noir grape is the cousin of Pinot Noir and “Burgundy’s other red wine.” A century ago, Gamay Noir from Beaujolais was the most expensive and sought after wine of Burgundy. Gamay is the ultimate food wine even more versatile than Pinot Noir as it can stand up to heavier meat and poultry dishes. Both in price and palate, well-made. Gamay Noir is a quintessential food wine that deserves a place on every table as a perfect everyday drinking wine of the people.

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Our Beaujolais Vieilles Vignes offers an intense red with purple hints. The nose reveals rich aromas of strawberry, raspberry, and blackcurrant. Beautiful length on the palate with red and black fruits notes. A wine with a very nice balance and soft tannins. This wine has a pretty ruby red color with purple hues. The intense nose opens with notes of red fruits and peach. The mouth is round, with delightful notes of strawberry, raspberry, and peach.

Remi and his wife Laurence began purchasing vines in and around the Brouilly and Cote de Brouilly appellations in 2006. In 2010 they bottled their first vintage, and since then their wines have acquired an avid following in the Parisian natural wine scene. This is an easy-drinking Beaujolais-Villages, with a good amount of minerality. It undergoes a short carbonic maceration and aging in concrete tanks. Lighter than their offerings of Brouilly and Cotes de Brouilly, it is an elegant young expression of the Gamay grape.

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A bright red color, the 2015 Beaujolais Villages is fresh and fruity.

50+ year old vines. Vines from Les Côtes de la Roche just west of Juliénas in the hamlet of Jullié 350 meters in altitude and on a clear day you can see Mont Blanc! High density planting: 10,000 vines/ha Steep slopes of crushed granite, blue stones – with the bedrock very close Semi-carbonic vinification in large upright wooden barrels Aged in tank after malolactic fermentation There are many terroir parallels between Jullié and Juliénas. This is a character-rich, expressive Gamay from just outside of Beaujolais’ band of “cru” villages. Certainly one of the finest values for serious quality anywhere; floral, aromatic and full of intensely layered red fruits. Domaine du Clos du Fief is run by our friend Michel Tête, with his son Sylvain working alongside. This is a rare 4th generation Cru estate in Juliénas and Julie, based at the far Northwest sector of Beaujolais. The history of these great villages dates back more than 2,000 years and trace their names to Julius Caesar. Vines were grown on the high altitude hillsides of Juliénas and Jullié (a granite rich Beaujolais-Villages Cru that mimics its more famous neighbor) in the Gallo-Roman period. Michel took over this history-rich land after studying in Beaune, where he learned many techniques that he now uses on his own wines to great acclaim. Michel harkens his wines back to the classics: low yields, meticulously farmed vineyards, and classic winemaking resulting in serious and mouthwatering examples of terroir driven reds.

This is a medium-bodied Beaujolais that shows red cherry, pomegranate & raspberry with underlying earthy notes. We love it with chicken, duck or pizza! Serve this wine slightly chilled.

Our Beaujolais-Villages reveals a deep ruby colour. It offers red fruits, lightly spicy notes. Of a remarquable softness and a nice concentration, the mouth is full of fresh fruits flavours. A very pleasant wine with mellow tannins.