Only 1 bottle per customer, for sale in Ireland only
Le Caveau's first allocation of this beautiful wine!
Jean Foillard's Morgon 3.14 is dark ruby red in the glass, with an elegant and complex nose alternating between dark berry fruits such as raspberry and blackberry, liquorice and rhubarb, cinnamon, tobacco and spices. In the mouth it is a full-bodied, important and elegant wine with an elegant tannic texture, very persistent with a nice savoury note.
Jean Foillard, Morgon 'Cuvée 3.14' comes from highly selective hand harvesting, of vines on the Cote de Py, all of which are in excess of 100 years old. Only made in the best vintages. Traditional, whole cluster fermentation lasts from 3-4 weeks, aged for 6-9 months in used oak barrels. Barrels are minimum 2 years old. Unfiltered and with no added SO2 during vinification or at bottling.
JEAN FOILLARD, Villié-Morgon Organic Principles, natural
‘Of all the disciples of Jules Chauvet, Jean Foillard is the most likely to succeed in the practice of using very little SO2, without having his wines act capriciously at the slightest change in atmospheric pressure. His wines possess magnificent body and give aromas of a unique purity and grace.’ La Revue de France
‘There is something no-nonsense and straightforward about Foillard’s wine. It seems to say, let’s cut straight to deliciousness. Deliciousness with class. It has a wonderful texture going down. The finesse from start to finish seems almost offhanded.’ Kermit Lynch
Jean Foillard’s estate comprises of 11 ha, including 5 ha in the fabled Côte du Py climat. A vigneron like Jean Foillard doesn't come around too often. Jean Foillard and his wife Agnès started their handkerchief-size domain in Morgon in the 1980's when the majority of appellation, driven by big negoces, were and are still producing industrial wines. Undeterred by their surroundings, Jean and Agnès decided to embark on their own path. They returned to honest vine growing and wine making the way their grandparents did. The vines are grown organically. The same attention is paid in their cellar. There are no pumps to move the wines at any stage in the chai. Every move of the wine in the cellar, from racking to bottling, is done by gravity. There are no additives in the cellar to hide shortcuts in the vineyards because there are no shortcuts in the vineyards. The hand-harvested grapes are fermented using natural yeasts only.