Domaine J. Chamonard
One of the original "Gang of Five", now called the "Gang of Four" Beaujolais producers (along with Marcel Lapierre, Guy Breton, Jean Thévenet and Jean Foillard), who became a loose association in the late-1970s, Joseph Chamonard passed control of his domain on to his daughter, Genevieve and her husband, Jean-Claude Chanudet in 1990. Like the others in that group, the Chamonard wines were and continue to be made in an non-interventionist, traditional style via the advice of consulting enologue Jacques Neuport, whose champion was local winemaker/negociant and writer Jules Chauvet, who, himself, has become somewhat of a patron saint among the natural wine crowd since his death in 1989. As such the wines made with whole clusters, cool fermentations, native yeasts, minimal or, ideally, no sulfur additions and bottling without fining or filtration, which was a pretty crazy way to make wine back in the hyper-industrialized wine world at that time, but such methods are mostly taken for granted by winemakers everywhere today.
From A Lucky ‘13 for Beaujolais Lovers (Jul 2016) by Josh Raynolds
2013 Morgon Le Clos de Lys
Release Price: $30
Color: Red
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