After visiting Guillaume a number of times over the last few years we decided to send James over for part of the 2019 harvest to help with this project. Le Juice comes from a small single site called ‘La Cabane’ on the hill of the famed La Madonne in the high reaches of Fleurie. The old bush vines are planted on coarse sand with speckles of bright pink granite dotted throughout. The vines produce small tight bunches with amazing purity and intensity. The wine is carbonic macerated for 10 days as whole bunches in concrete and aged for 6 months in tank. We bottled it young with a small sulphur addition. It is juicy and bright with a fleshy mid palette and opens beautifully over the course of a few days.
It truly is an honour for us to get an opportunity to work with Guillaume and his magnificent cru Beaujolais vineyards. We are so excited to share this wine with you and watch the project evolve over future vintages. –Das Juice