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2020 Beaujolais-Villages, Aux Chânes, Domaine des Jeunes Pousses

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Gamay
Ready - at best
Product: 20208068280
2020 Beaujolais-Villages, Aux Chânes, Domaine des Jeunes Pousses

Description

The wine comes from 50-year-old vines in the hills above Julienas, France. A medium-bodied red, the 2020 vintage features ripe tannins and is a serious and impressive wine to add to the rack.

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2020 is the first vintage made by Hugo Foizel and Angela Quiblier, custodians of Thibault Liger-Belair’s “incubator” for aspiring vignerons. Aux Chânes is the finest, most elegant cuvée of this exciting project. Fruit is sourced from 50-year-old vines, planted on cool granite hills above Julienas. This altitude results in a wine of wonderful elegance and freshness. The nose offers an explosion of rose petal, raspberry coulis and saline touches. The palate is delightfully pure, with bright summer fruits and a refreshing, mouthwatering finish.

Drink now - 2028

Adam Bruntlett, Senior Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd (April 2022)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Gamay
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Domaine des Jeunes Pousses

About this wine

Gamay

A French variety planted predominately in Beaujolais where it is the grape behind everything from light and often acidic Beaujolais Nouveau through to the more serious and well-structured wines from the 10 cru villages. It takes its name from a hamlet just outside Chassagne-Montrachet and was at one stage widely planted on the Côte d`Or. However it was gradually phased out due to its poor yield and supposed poor quality of its wines.
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Beaujolais

Beaujolais

Beaujolais is almost entirely planted with the Gamay grape and produces mostly red wines. Around 70 million litres of Beaujolais are produced each year, or two-and-a-half times the entire wine production of the rest of Burgundy. More than half of this is sold as Beaujolais Nouveau, although an Aladdin's trove of gloriously satisfying wines exist amongst the 10 named village crus that occupy a 15-mile strip of granite hills to the north.
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Domaine des Jeunes Pousses

Domaine des Jeunes Pousses, which translates to “young shoots,” was established by Thibault Liger-Belair, a renowned winegrower from the Côte de Nuits region in Burgundy. The estate was conceived with the ambition of serving as a vocational vineyard for young winegrowers before they venture out on their own. It provides a valuable learning experience for those aspiring to become autonomous producers.
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