2022 Jean Foillard Fleurie Beaujolais

Winemaker Notes:  Fresh hay on the nose, wet wheat field and moss. Light and living, charged with herbs, cranberry, and strawberry. Jean’s wines, like the Beaujolais itself, have a way of bringing you squarely home. Each cuvée is unmistakably from here. The wine smells like the earth right before it rains and tastes like the pine forests high on the hills and the wild fruits in the underbrush. With vines unaltered by herbicides or pesticides, and every grape cluster twisted from the vine by hand, this is pure Beaujolais, and there is nothing better.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM


Vinous - "The 2022 Fleurie has a beautifully defined nose with a wonderful mineralite like Foillard's other cuvees, surfeited with energy. There's real purity and panache. The palate is medium-bodied with a touch of mulberry on the entry and fine depth, lightly spiced with a vibrant and persistent finish tinged with a curry leaf. This is a Fleurie from the top drawer. Excellent." (3.24)