2023 Jean Foillard Beaujolais Blanc
2023 Jean Foillard Beaujolais Blanc
2023 Jean Foillard Beaujolais Blanc
2023 Jean Foillard Beaujolais Blanc
Jean Foillard

2023 Beaujolais Blanc

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Jean Foillard’s first-ever white wine

The 2023 Beaujolais Blanc marks a new chapter for one of the region’s most celebrated producers. Made from Chardonnay grown on a 1.4-hectare parcel at Pizay, the vines were between 10 and 15 years old when this inaugural vintage was harvested. Only around 12,000 bottles were produced.

White flowers, ripe pear and green apple lead into citrus and subtle stony notes. The palate is rounded and generous, reflecting the warmth of the vintage, yet remains fresh and composed with mineral tension, refined texture and a long, gently saline finish.

Whole bunches underwent three days of cold maceration before pressing. Half the wine was vinified in concrete, with the remainder fermented and matured in seasoned barrels and sandstone jars before blending.

Why we love it

A rare glimpse of Chardonnay through the Foillard lens: ripe, textural and quietly mineral, with plenty of freshness beneath its generous fruit.

About the Wine

The Chardonnay comes from a 1.4-hectare parcel at Pizay, planted with vines between 10 and 15 years old. Whole bunches underwent three days of cold maceration before pressing. Half the wine was vinified in concrete, with the remainder divided between seasoned barrels and two sandstone jars, then blended before bottling. This inaugural release was limited to approximately 12,000 bottles.

About the Winemaker
As I wrote last year, it's an open secret that this is one of the region's finest as well as most consistent addresses, and followers of the estate won't be disappointed by the newly released 2018.

Jean and Agnès Foillard's first vintage was in 1981, but it was in 1985 that Jean began to work differently, influenced by his neighbor, the late Marcel Lapierre. Lapierre followed négociant and microbiologist Jules Chauvet in rejecting selected yeasts and manipulative winemaking in favor of minimal effective sulfur dioxide and carbonic maceration at comparatively low temperatures.

Today, Foillard remains true to that approach: His Morgon cuvées see some three weeks of maceration in tank before gentle pressing and élevage in used Burgundy barrels. Chaptalization is eschewed. He also gives his wines a little bottle age before release.

Despite his identification with the natural wine movement, Foillard has no tolerance for slovenly winemaking practices or flawed wines, and his bottles are typically models of aromatic purity and graceful aging. I regularly purchase these wines for my own cellar and warmly recommend them to readers.

William Kelley End of May 2020, The Wine Advocate
Reviews

94 points, La Revue du Vin de France

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Region Beaujolais
Country France
Vintage 2023
Size 750ml
Alcohol 13.5%
Closure Cork
Grapes Chardonnay
Farming Organic
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