2019 Chateau des Vergers Beaujolais Lantignie "Aux Vergers"

Is Lantignié the eleventh cru of Beaujolais? Perhaps not officially just yet, but a movement has been going on to elevate this distinctive terroir to cru status. One of Lantignié’s many champions is Cosima Bassouls, the young winemaker at Chateau des Vergers, whose family property dates back to 1604! The property is less than a kilometer from Morgon, sporting soils of schist and granite. Cosima is dedicated to organic viticulture, even going so far as to believing that farming organically should be required in order to qualify for the Lantignié designation. So it should come as no surprise that she farms using biodynamic principles, ferments using native yeast, and only uses minimal sulfur at bottling as needed. We think this dedication to the land shines through in this wine which may initially show a little funk, but let it breathe a bit, and the fruit will sing. Vinified semi-carbonically in cement and then aged on the lees in concrete tanks, this un-oaked wine will do well with fish, chicken, veggies, deep conversations… anything!