ON PETE LA SOIF! 2010, JEAN PAUL THEVENET

TASTING NOTES

'This sparkling Beaujolais is almost too easy to drink; just try to stop yourself after the first sip. A bubbling mouthful of strawberries and raspberries with just the right amount of sweetness, yet keeping great acidity. Ideal as an aperitif, or any other time you like, and at 7.5% alcohol it's practically saintly!'

Lisa McCaghy
Online Department

PRODUCER NOTES

Jean-Paul Thevenet is one of the Gang of Four of Beaujolais (the others being Guy Breton, Jean Foillard and Marcel Lapierre) and perhaps best embodies the "old school" qualities that these winemakers have championed. Thevenet works a plot of extremely old vines in the Morgon appellation. The average age of the vines is 70 years and they are cultivated organically and yield very little fruit.

The grapes are fermented with natural yeasts and, quite remarkably, often without the addition of any sulphur dioxide (commonly used by winemakers as a preservative and to prevent bacteriological growth). After fermentation Thevenet ages the wine for six to eight months in used oak barrels that he gets from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. The wines are bottled without filtration.

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£12.95