Jean Foillard Morgon Corcelette 2024 SF Chronicle - Past Pick with aromas of red fruit

with aromas of red fruit

Aged six months in oak barrels

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Nots of leather

Jean Foillard Morgon Corcelette 2024 SF Chronicle - Past Pick with aromas of red fruitMorgon is Jean Foillard's home ground and Cote du Py is the bottling that made his name, but Corcelette is the one that shows the other side of the appellation. The soils here are sandier and granite based rather than the iron rich schist of the Py, and the wine comes out more aromatic and more open, with less brooding weight to it. Foillard is one of the Gang of Four, the growers who took Beaujolais back to old vines, native yeast fermentations and