Morgon Vieilles Vignes 2021 - Guy Breton

Morgon Vieilles Vignes - Guy Breton

Morgon Vieilles Vignes is Guy Breton's main wine that comes from Gamay grapes that come from 80-year-old vineyards, on granite and sand soils, in the sub-areas of Saint-Joseph and Grand Cras. A high-altitude sandy parcel gives the blend greater acidity contributing to the complexity and final depth. Manual harvest, vinification of corporate grappa, tank saturated in CO2 with little must at the base, semi-carbonic maceration and enzymatic fermentation for about 20 days, then drained. The wine ends the fermentation in cement or fiberglass. Aging in used barriques for at least third passage on the lees for 10 months.

Service

We taste it at a temperature of 16/18 ° in the tulip glass. Wine to be drunk immediately but will express its best in a few years.

Pairings

Ideal to accompany cold cuts appetizers, first courses, excellent with a duck breast.

Cellar: Guy Breton

1980, Villié Morgon, Jules Chauvet, Lyonnais microbiologist, first winemaker of natural wines without sulfur dioxide, was educating the first on the disciples, among them the first Marcel Lapierre. Together with Lapierre there are three other small producers in the area interested in a natural winemaking approach in one of the most industrialized lands of wine in France. Alongside Marcel Lapierre, Jean Paul Thévenet, Jean Foillard and Guy Breton, the historic American importer Kermit Lynch, starting shortly after to work with all four called them "The Gang of Four", a revolution had begun that would have influenced the whole world . Guy Breton also called P'Tit Max, has always worked on vineyards at important altitudes to always guarantee grapes of great fruit and excellent acidity, essential in spontaneous fermentation. The Guy Breton approach in fermentation is the classic Chauvetian: semi-carbon winemaking, however, drawing off as soon as it senses the tannin in order to produce Gamay of extreme finesse and femininity; this is Guy Breton's style, very pure and precise juices from Beaujolais terroirs.