2017 Domaine Jean Foillard Cuvee 3.14, Morgon, Beaujolais, France Magnum 1.5L

Jean and Agns Foillard took over his fathers domaine in 1980. The biggest part of their vineyards are planted on the Cte du Py, the famed slope outside the town of Villi-Morgon. . These granite and schist soils sit on an alluvial fan at the highest point above the town and impart great complexity. Jean and three other local vignerons, Marcel Lapierre, Jean-Paul Thvenet, and Guy Breton know as The Gang of Four, called for a return to the old practices of viticulture and vinification: starting with old vines, never using synthetic herbicides or pesticides, harvesting late, rigorously sorting to remove all but the healthiest
grapes, adding minimal doses of sulfur dioxide or none at all, and refusing both chaptalization and filtration.