Beaujolais
Morgon - 2021 - Antoine Sunier - Magnum
Domaine Antoine Sunier
Immediate crush for this little red fruits bomb: raspberry, wild strawberry, red currant... Palate: superbly balanced, a very juicy and fluid 2021 vintage, an "old-style Beaujolais" as Antoine told us, with only 12 % alcohol. We're big fans!
- Size
- 150 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Morgon
- Degree of alcohol
- 12 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2030
- rock’n’roll
100% Gamay from 60 year-old vines certified organic for 15 years, planted on stony soil at 270 meters altitude, facing South, on a parcel of 1.22 ha. Vinification : indigenous yeasts, vatting by gravity, carbonic maceration for 10 to 15 days, very soft horizontal pressing for one day. Maturation on fine lees for 7 months, the 2021 vintage was completely aged in concrete vats. Blending for one month. Bottled in June 2022 without fining or filtration, micro-dose of sulphur before bottling.
Antoine Sunier
Antoine Sunier, child of the 79 vintage, was in no way predestined to become a winegrower... Son of a hairdresser, he had a first professional life in telecoms for 13 years, but was then titillated by the wish to have his feet in the vineyards, thanks to his brother Julien Sunier, who set up his own estate after returning to Beaujolais in 2003. In 2008, while he was living in the French Basque...
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