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This is one of the best Morgons you will find. At its simplest the fruit is picked and crushed and the juice fermented; that's it. No addtion of anything! No filtration and no fining. It is very pure wine and Jean Foillard is an owner and winemaker who has quality and purity as his priority.

"Beaujolais is a non-serious wine, right? Gamay is an inferior grape? Well taste this, and change your mind. Yes, most Beaujolais is uninspiring, but this is an exception.

It also challenges preconceptions about whether there’s anything to the ‘natural wine’ movement, because this is a wine that is unfined, unfiltered and, more significantly, has no added sulphur dioxide (the almost universally used wine preservative), and it is fantastic. It shouldn't be, but it's better than almost all, if not all, the more manipulatively produced wines I've tried from this region." Jamie Goode, Wineanorak.com

 

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Cote du Py Morgon, 2007
Jean Foillard

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Beaujolais for grown-ups. If you have always loathed the red fruit and bubblegum flavours of big-name Beaujolais, it is time you bought the real thing: an earthy original from a small grower, Jean Foillard, rounded off with almost a year’s ageing in old oak barrels. The end result is a wonderfully feral wine.

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Cote du Py Morgon, 2007
Jean Foillard

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Magnum. "Beaujolais for grown-ups. If you have always loathed the red fruit and bubblegum flavours of big-name beaujolais, it is time you bought the real thing: an earthy original from a small grower, Jean Foillard, rounded off with almost a year’s ageing in old oak barrels. The end result is a wonderfully feral yet lively, ripe, gamey, plum and rose-charged mouthful. Delicious." Jane MacQuitty

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