Beaujolais Villages Marylou 2024 - Guy Breton

Beaujolais Villages Marylou - Guy Breton

Marylou is a Beaujolais Villages made from Gamay grapes that accurately expresses the freshest and most vibrant character of the appellation. The harvest is manual. In the cellar, the grapes are vinified whole bunch: the tank is saturated with CO₂ with a small amount of must at the bottom, starting a semi-carbonic maceration. The enzymatic fermentation lasts about ten days, after which the wine is racked. Fermentation is then completed in concrete or fiberglass tanks, where the wine ages for six months. The granite soils give the wine tension, finesse, and a pronounced minerality, making Marylou a Beaujolais of great drinkability and aromatic precision.

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.