2024 Domaine Jean Foillard - Morgon Cote du Py (750ml)

The Producer

For as long as serious Beaujolais has been sold, one lesson has remained constant: if you choose just one Beaujolais producer, you simply can't go wrong with Domaine Jean Foillard. Inspired by his neighbor, the legendary Marcel Lapierre, Jean Foillard was an early champion of organic farming and became a central figure in the natural wine movement of Beaujolais, following the low-intervention philosophy of Jules Chauvet. 

The Vineyard

The Côte du Py is widely regarded as one of Beaujolais's greatest sites — steep, south-facing slopes of granite and schist that produce wines of remarkable concentration and mineral tension. Foillard is blessed with old vines here, many over 60 years old, which give the wine its incredible density. 

Winemaking

Whole clusters are placed in vats for carbonic maceration, then aged 6–9 months in used oak barrels. No oenological products are added, no chaptalization, minimum sulfur, and bottled without fining or filtration. 

Tasting Notes

From the famed Côte du Py hillside, it opens with red cherry, raspberry, blackcurrant, and violet, before notes of wild herbs, earth, pepper, and crushed granite begin to rise. The palate is juicy, structured, and beautifully lifted, with bright acidity, fine tannins, and a mineral backbone running through the red and dark fruit. There is enough freshness to make it irresistible now, but enough depth and old-vine concentration to reward patience. This is Morgon in its most magnetic form: vivid, stony, elegant, and quietly powerful.