Domaine Guy Breton - Morgon AOC 2021 - Beaujolais

Morgon is one of the best cru Beaujolais, 

That gamay is medium bodied with a very nice structured, firmed tannins. 

Guy Breton is known by his friends as Petit Max.  He took over the family domaine from his grandfather in 1986. Until that point, the family was selling their fruit to the large cooperative wineries which dominated the region and were gravitating towards a uniform style.

Following the example of traditionalist Jules Chauvet, Guy and three other local vignerons, Marcel Lapierre, Jean-Paul Thévenet, and Jean Foillard, soon hoisted the flag of this back-to-nature movement.  The Gang 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 chaptalisation and filtration. The end result allows Morgon to express itself naturally, without make-up or plastic surgery:  rustic, spicy, loaded with schist minerals and at the same time, refreshing and deep-down delicious.