Terres Dorees (Jean-Paul Brun), Beaujolais L'Ancien, 2024 SO0422_Reductions 4 hectares

4 hectares

The tannins are firm but fine-grained

Eric Bordelet's Sydre Argelette remains the producer's Grand Cru cider expression—the most superior and excellent blend from organic orchards

A small-production bottle from one of the rising voices of the new Georgian wine scene

complex red fruit with spice ready to drink now or age for years

Terres Dorees (Jean-Paul Brun), Beaujolais L'Ancien, 2024 SO0422_Reductions 4 hectaresJean Paul Brun has spent a career proving that Beaujolais doesn't need carbonic maceration to be great. L'Ancien ("the ancient") is his manifesto bottling: 50 to 80 year old Gamay from Terres Dorees in southern Beaujolais, destemmed, native fermented on the skins for four to six weeks in concrete or neutral wood, and raised the way you'd raise a young Burgundy. The result is a Beaujolais that reads more like village level Cote d'Or than the gulpable