Beaujolais Case

A soft, mellow, highly satisfying fully mature Fleurie from an impeccable source, this was aged in small wooden barrels and is now showing Burgundy-like mellowness. It displays the hallmark perfume so typical of the wines of Fleurie. A Beaujolais cru perfect for drinking now.

From Quincié, considered one of the finest of the Beaujolais villages, this has a bouquet of crushed raspberries, a burst of ripe fruit on the palate and a bright, clean finish.

Bags of vibrant, fresh gamay fruit from an excellent producer with vines close to Juliénas. Refreshing and versatile estate-bottled Beaujolais. Emeringes is a village perched above Juliénas and its vines, often laid out on steep slopes, offer a good source of Villages-quality Beaujolais. The château itself is at the top of the village, next to the church where Pierre David uses the cellars to make his wines.

The 2023 Côtes de Brouilly is a serious vintage, with structure and minerality, capturing the generous purity of fruit from the vintage with freshness, structure and elegance. At 320ha this is one of the smallest of the crus but it has a strong personality. It is an oval-shaped hill with vineyards at all points of the compass, including one called La Glacière (the glacier) on the north-facing slope. Whilst most Beaujolais comes from soils of pink granite, the Côte de Brouilly`s soils are principally bluish, composed of diorite, an igneous rock of a bluish grey colour with a green cast, together with some schist and granite. Its wines are structured, mineral and age worthy. This is a blend of two wines. One was selected for its wonderfully ripe, richly fruity, concentrated and creamy texture, blended this with a more structured and mineral wine which contributed some underlying freshness and improved the length of flavour. Try with beetroot roasted with shallots, garlic and thyme.

The ultimate bistrot style-wine, this has intense and vibrant black-fruit perfume, a classic Beaujolais-Villages with good balance, vibrant red fruit and a ripe, yet fresh palate. Beaujolais has always been an ideal bistro wine and goes brilliantly with a wide variety of dishes, from charcuterie to fish, fowl and roasted vegetables. Delicious too, slightly chilled, with a baked Camembert or Brie and a baguette. The finest chickens make a top match for it too.

Following the success of our limited 150th anniversary release last year, we decided to bottle some more of this exquisite Beaujolais under our exhibition label range. Moulin-à-Vent is considered by many to be the king of the Beaujolais crus, and its top wines historically commanded similar prices to grand cru red Burgundy. Thankfully for the consumer, if not the producers, that is no longer the case. Just under 10% of the wine was aged in small oak barrels of three to four years which adds to the texture and structure of the wine on the palate. The 2019 vintage produced excellent wines in Beaujolais, with the gamay grapes reaching optimal ripeness, but without losing the freshness that makes cru Beaujolais wines. The wine, which is perfectly ready for drinking now, has mid-ruby colour and a nose of brambles and dried herbs. Perfect with charcuterie, roast chicken or goose, or a mushroom ragout.