2020 | Alex Foillard | Beaujolais Villages

Description

Red Wine: 2020 | Alex Foillard | Beaujolais Villages

Bursting with aromas of sweet berries, cherries and wood smoke, the 2020 Beaujolais-Villages is medium-bodied, lively and succulent, with a fleshy core of fruit and powdery structuring tannins.

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Producer: Alex Foillard

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Gamay

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Bursting with aromas of sweet berries, cherries and wood smoke, the 2020 Beaujolais-Villages is medium-bodied, lively and succulent, with a fleshy core of fruit and powdery structuring tannins.

Producer Information

Almost thirty years ago, Kermit Lynch introduced U.S. wine drinkers to four disciples of Jules Chauvet, the Beaujolais vigneron who experimented in making “natural” wines with unparalleled success. One of these followers was Jean Foillard, a soft-spoken perfectionist who has arguably become the Beaujolais’s most talented vigneron working today. He crafts reds that range from silky to succulent from the cru of Morgon’s top sites. Their balance, finesse, and age-worthiness are unrivaled in the region. Now, Jean’s son Alex is fashioning his own reds from Gamay, and the apple certainly does not fall far from the tree. Alex has already joined the ranks of the region’s most gifted—and well-trained—producers. Where Alex has strayed is in the appellations he has chosen as a starting point. Working in Brouilly and the Côte de Brouilly, which represent Beaujolais’s two southernmost crus, just south of Morgon, Alex plays with the sometimes mind-bending and rule-defying nature of the special terroirs here. Alex Foillard epitomizes the new generation of talent coming of age in the Beaujolais. Growing up in the Foillard household, he had privileged access to the brightest minds of natural wine, but that did not prevent him from exhibiting some ambition of his own. In order to really spread his wings, he purchased his own vineyards, including a one-hectare plot of fifty-year-old vines in Brouilly, a cru novel to the Foillard cellars.