Jean-Paul Brun Beaujolais L'Ancien 2023
£24.70
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Jean-Paul Brun Beaujolais L'Ancien 2023
£24.70
Ripe red fruits — raspberry, cherry, candied orange, warm stones. Smooth attack, fine tannins, freshness and roundness, persistent mineral finish.
Light & Juicy
Member price: £22.23
Grape100% Gamay
Vintage2023
RegionBeaujolais
CountryFrance
ABV13.0%
ClosureCork
Serve13-14°C
Jamie's Note
Brun is the godfather of natural Beaujolais — he was destemming and using native yeasts when everyone else was doing carbonic maceration and banana-scented Nouveau. L'Ancien means 'the old way', and it IS the old way. Proper.
Food Match
Sunday roast chicken · Salmon en croûte · Tomme de Savoie · Ratatouille
Ripe red fruits — raspberry, cherry, candied orange, warm stones. Smooth attack, fine tannins, freshness and roundness, persistent mineral finish.
Burgundian vinification — NO carbonic maceration. Complete destemming. Indigenous yeasts. No chaptalization. 10-12 day maceration. Aged in wooden casks + cement tanks. 50-80yr-old vines on sandy clay-limestone.