Jean-Paul Brun Domaine des Terres Dorees Beaujolais Blanc, France 2023

Description

RMS 92

Chardonnay from Beaujolais is not something you see everyday (3% of production is Chardonnay). After all this is red wine or Gamay country. This wine should change this stigma for you. This wine is round and full bodied with honey and creamy texture in front pallet. Then balanced with fresh minerality and acid to give balance poise.

Jean Paul Brun is located in Charnay, a village in the Southern Beaujolais just north of Lyons, in a beautiful area known as the "Region of Golden Stones". Brun is the owner and winemaker at this 40-acre family estate and has attracted the attention of the French and American press for the wonderfully fruity and delicate wines he produces. Brun wants to make "old-style" Beaujolais and his vinification differs from the prevailing practices in the region. He believes that the charm of Gamay's fruit is best expressed by the grapes' indigenous yeasts, rather than by adding industrial yeast. Virtually all Beaujolais is now made by adding a particular yeast during fermentation.