Guy Breton - Morgon P'Tit Max 2019
Price: $54.96
Sale Price: $41.00
| Producer | Guy Breton |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Subregion | Beaujolais |
| Varietal | Gamay |
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Sku | 797520 |
| Size | 750ml |
Guy Breton is widely considered one of the greatest Beaujolais winemakers of our time and makes up one quarter of the famed 'Gang of Four', a term coined by Kermit Lynch for the pantheon of vigneron who launched the 1980s natural wine movement around the village of Morgon. Breton is celebrated for obsessively careful vineyard management and meticulous winemaking practices. His combination of old vines, rigorously sorted fruit, and a refusal to chaptalise or filter, have resulted in some of the best Beaujolais wines we've tasted to date! Though friends call him Petite Max, he and his wines are anything but petite.
p'tit Max comes from Breton's oldest (we're talking 130 years old) Morgon vines and is his most serious wine of all. You'll find no chemical additions in Breton's vineyards or winery. The wine is aged for ten months in used barrels from none other than Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, and then bottle unfined and unfiltered. Basically, this is as natural as it gets, but you'd never know it! Crystal clear flavors here of ripe red and black cherry fruit, cassis, mint, and clove. The palate is dense and concentrated, yes, but the wine drinks ethereally with feminine charm and elegance. Becky Wasserman once said in an interview to hold different kinds of fabrics when tasting different wines. Think velvet.
