Here are the six best affordable 'Beaujolais-Villages' bottles to try from the region (via punch_drink)
The bottle Femi Oyediran and Miles White can't stop thinking about is a Bierzo-bred red made by a prolific leader of"the new Spain" movement.. Benchmark bottles that reliably landed in the $25 range—notably, the celebrated Morgons from Jean Foillard and Marcel Lapierre—have since doubled in cost.
“We always talk of the crus,” says Jean-Paul Dubost, winemaker at his family’s fourth-generation estate in the up-and-coming village of Lantignié. “But in Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages there are great terroirs as well, giving wines that are extremely interesting with identities of their own.” With Beaujolais’ top bottlings quickly encroaching upon fine wine territory, meticulously picked apart for subtle distinctions in terroir, soil type, and production methods, Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages provide an ideal point of entry and what Eric Moorer, director of sales at Washington, D.C.’s Domestique Wine, calls “a ‘big picture’ sense of what Beaujolais is about as a region.”
Stylistically, that translates to a spectrum ranging from friendly, fruit-driven wines designed for immediate enjoyment to more concentrated, structured efforts that approach cru-level complexity. Without knowing a producer’s individual style, it can be difficult to anticipate which part of this continuum to expect. But with prices rarely exceeding $25 per bottle—and then only for cult names like Lapierre and Foillard, both of whom make excellent versions—the results rarely disappoint.
It’s a sentiment worth keeping in mind the next time someone complains about that bottle of Morgon hovering at $140 on the wine list. While the price inflation that has befallen the biggest names in Beaujolais shows no signs of abating, there’s an upside. No longer confined to the same handful of famous reference points, the Beaujolais section of the average U.S.
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