Domaine J. Chamonard
Joseph Chamonard played a big part in the Beaujolais renaissance that took off in the 1980s. Chamonard passed away in 1990, leaving his winery and four hectares of organically farmed vines to his daughter Geneviève and her husband, Jean-Claude Chanudet. Three-and-a-half hectares of those vines are in Morgon and the other half-hectare is a plot of old vines, up to a century old, in Fleurie’s prime, high-altitude La Madone lieu-dit. Chanudet uses whole clusters and carbonic maceration in concrete vats, followed by aging in neutral oak foudres. Chanudet racks only once, from vat to cask, and the wines are unfined and bottled without filtration, with a minimal amount of sulfur applied at the last minute. The 2017s and 2018s here are pretty serious, impressive and age-worthy wines that show unlikely energy for hot vintages. I’ve always liked the fact that Chanudet tends to hold his wines back for a while before releasing them, which is a practice seldom seen these days, anywhere, but especially in Beaujolais.
From Changing Perspectives in Beaujolais (Aug 2021) by Josh Raynolds
2017 Morgon Le Clos de Lys
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