Jean Foillard Fleurie 2024 campaign-feature and cigar box

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before being blended and bottled with minimal filtration

Atlantic-driven freshness of vineyards within sight of the ocean

they're making Chateauneuf to keep and improve in the cellar over a decade or more

early picking

Jean Foillard Fleurie 2024 campaign-feature and cigar boxJean Foillard needs no introduction, but here is one anyway: he is one of the Gang of Four, the Beaujolais growers who followed Jules Chauvet back toward old vines, native yeasts, minimal sulfur and no shortcuts, and in doing so rewrote what the region could be. Morgon is his home ground, but Fleurie is the cru people reach for when they want perfume, and Foillard's is exactly that, the most lifted and floral wine in his lineup rather than the most