Beaujolais
Nas sans Julie - 2020 - Jonathan Purcell
Vin Noé
A complex nose with notes of red fruits, blackberry jam, and violets... The aromatics are more powerful than those we usually associate with Beaujolais. Palate: incredible substance, melted tannins, velvety texture and very lovely length. A favourite from our tasting.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2023 to 2027
- rock’n’roll
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100% Gamay from vines farmed organically and planted in Juliénas, a cuvée produced from grapes purchased from the Courtois family, based in the Beaujolais. Vinification is natural and without any additives: whole grapes bunches, 15 days of maceration, four sessions of treading (real foot-treading, says Jonathan, when you put your whole body into it!), gentle pressing, transfer into barrels that have seen several wines for the end of fermentation and maturation. Bottled without fining or filtration, and zero sulphur!

Jonathan Purcell
Jonathan Purcell is a young Californian winemaker full of talent. His father introduced him to the pleasures of wine at an early age, by having him taste Burgundies from the ’40s and ’50s. The aromas of those elixirs marked him for life. By the age of 15 he’d already decided that “when he grows up” he too would make wine. After working his first harvests in Australia, South Africa and the Napa...
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