Description
Jean-Paul Brun started Terres Dorées in 1979 with a mere 4 hectares of vines in Charnay in the southern Beaujolais. Today, the estate is around 30 acres, but with an additional 15 hectares farmed in the crus. Harvest is by hand and of well-ripened but not over-ripened fruit, so alcohol levels are generally modest.
Jean-Paul is not an adherent or advocate of “natural wine” per se, yet is among the most natural of Beaujolais vignerons, uninterested in trend or fashion but deeply committed to purity of expression of fruit and site.
Tasting Notes
Jean Paul Brun Morgon Cote du Py ‘Javernieres’ is a noticeably denser style of Gamay with darker red fruit flavours, kirsch notes, spice and earth aromas. The Cru village of Morgon is known for producing more long-lived wines that with bottle age, can take on more Burgundian characteristics. The prized slope in Morgon is called Cote du Py which sits just south of the village of Villie-Morgon. This wine comes from an area on the slope known as Javernieres which sits on granite soil. The wine is aged in concrete tanks and really is next level Beaujolais.
