Famille Guerin - Les Thorins, Moulin a Vent, Beaujolais, France (2021)

TASTING NOTES

Complex layers of black fruits, hot incense-perfumed rocks and a combination of salty chalkiness. This wine needs a little time to open up aromatically, but the palate explodes with flavour and finesse right out of the gate. 

From a 3.7 acre plot of 60-year-old vines in Les Thorins, this wine was made in the Beaujolais method with 30% aged in old barrels. This big wine is intense, smoky, and very long.

Elisa Guerin returned to her parents domain in Beaujolais (mostly in the Moulin à Vent appellation) to turn the vineyard organic and lower interventions in the winery.

An agronomist by training, Elisa first wanted to focus my time on quality work in the vineyard to obtain beautiful vines, living soils and balanced grapes.

Vinification is carried out as simply as possible with the fewest possible inputs in order to obtain fine wines that express their terroir and reduce environmental impacts by planting hedges and fruit trees and working with living organisms.