Tasting Notes
The Pie Wine or 3.14 is the top cuvee from Jean Foillard. It comes from a specific plot of 100+ year old vines on Morgon's famed Cote du Py. It's the most powerful of all the Foillard wines, often being medium-full boddied as well as structured. The 2016 is succulent and floral, velvet-like in texture but holding something back as all grand wines do. It will show it's true self in years to come. A rare marvel. - Chris L
Jean and his wife Agnès live just outside the small village of Ville-Morgon in a large, old white farmhouse that they have renovated beautifully. Jean started making wine in 1982; first at the family domaine then after a few years he branched out on his own and started to rent and buy his own holdings (including a large, perfect parcel on the Côte du Py: the most celebrated climat in all of Beaujolais). Today his holdings are 11 hectares, including a parcel recently inherited from Agnes' parents in the lieu-dit Courcellette. It's granitic soils are a little different to the iron rich, schist of the Côte du Py and the cuvée is bottled separately.
Jean Foillard is a fervent supporter, like Marcel Lapierre, of the natural wine growing and making methods of the legendary Jules Chauvet. This includes keeping whole clusters of grapes in vats for 2 to 3 weeks at a low temperature before fermentation, using only natural yeast, no pumping, no fining and no filtration. Furthermore he ages his wine in barrels brought from the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti..... the results are sublime. He is a cult wine hero amongst the very many young, free-spirited vignerons in France who are now looking back to nature to make fine wine. - Importer Note
Product Type | Wine Red Gamay & Beaujolais |
Volume | 750ml |
Country | France |
Region | Beaujolais |
Sub Region | Morgon |
Winemaking Practices | Natural |
Vineyard Practices | Organic/Biodynamic |