Mathieu Paquet Beaujolais Villages Les Granitiques 2022

Mathieu's Les Granitiques bottling comes from a patch of pink granite high on the hillside slopes of Lantignie. This is organic Gamay that has been worked for decades by a close friend of the Paquet family. The grapes are pressed whole cluster in an old screw press. Fermented on the skins in concrete, then rested for a short while in neutral oak, followed by bottling, which is both unfiltered and unfined, and with minimal sulfur. In 2022, the natural suntrap of this vineyard produced wine of great minerality. There's a smack of bright red cherry and framboise as soon as you lift the glass to your nose, followed by pink peppercorns and the "granitic" je ne sais quoi that only great Lantignie terroir can deliver. Come see how this single-vineyard, soil-to-glass Gamay Noir delivers both value and true cru Beaujolais character.