Terres Dorees (Jean-Paul Brun), Beaujolais L'Ancien, 2024
Jean-Paul Brun has spent a career proving that Beaujolais doesn't need carbonic maceration to be great. L'Ancien ("the ancient") is his manifesto bottling: 50- to 80-year-old Gamay from Terres Dorees in southern Beaujolais, destemmed, native-fermented on the skins for four to six weeks in concrete or neutral wood, and raised the way you'd raise a young Burgundy. The result is a Beaujolais that reads more like village-level Cote d'Or than the gulpable Nouveau most people associate with the region: dark cherry, plum, crushed granite, violet, and a fine-grained tannic structure. Drink it now with a bit of a chill, or hold a few years and watch it knit into something Pinot drinkers will mistake for the real thing.
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Jean-Paul Brun has spent a career proving that Beaujolais doesn't need carbonic maceration to be great. L'Ancien ("the ancient") is his manifesto bottling: 50- to 80-year-old Gamay from Terres Dorees in southern Beaujolais, destemmed, native-fermented on the skins for four to six weeks in concrete or neutral wood, and raised the way you'd raise a young Burgundy. The result is a Beaujolais that reads more like village-level Cote d'Or than the gulpable Nouveau most people associate with the region: dark cherry, plum, crushed granite, violet, and a fine-grained tannic structure. Drink it now with a bit of a chill, or hold a few years and watch it knit into something Pinot drinkers will mistake for the real thing.
