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Jean‑Paul Thévenet is one of the original handful of producers who helped spark the natural‑wine movement in Beaujolais in the 1980s â€?the group Kermit Lynch famously dubbed “The Gang of Fourâ€?/em>. Inspired by his dear friend and Beaujolais legend Marcel Lapierre, he abandoned fertilisers, pesticides and practices such as chaptalisation in favour of organic farming and minimal intervention in the winery. In doing so, he redefined what is possible from gnarly, old‑vine Gamay grown on granite.

This Morgon comes from very old vines planted in 1929, 1936, 1962-63 in the climat ‘Doubyâ€?(lieux-dits ‘Pérouâ€? ‘Le Clachetâ€? ‘Les Bressesâ€?. These vines grow on a very fine and fluffy sand topsoil over a bedrock of granite.

Among Morgon’s silkiest and most exquisitely fragrant expressions, bursting with sweet red cherry and raspberry fruit, cinnamon and rose petals. On the palate it is at once energetic and poised, concentrated yet weightless, with a long, lingering finish.