2023 Domaine Julien Sunier Wild Soul Beaujolais-Villages, France Robert Chevillon and black-tea tones carried by

and black-tea tones carried by impressive

This bottling is taken from the first commercial Cayuga planting in the Finger Lakes

papaya & kumquat with hints of black pepper and smoke

the difference in the age of the vines and the geology of the "Carbone" and "Les Mines" parcels produces two very distinct expressions of Cabernet Franc

A Pinot blanc grown on very steep slopes

2023 Domaine Julien Sunier Wild Soul Beaujolais-Villages, France Robert Chevillon and black-tea tones carried byCold, semi carbonic maceration in fiberglass tank without extraction; vertical press; wild yeast fermentation; no addition of sulfur in vinification or ageing. Ageing on the fine lees in 3000L concrete egg (no oxygen exposure) and in horizontal concrete vats; unfilted; 10 mg of SO2 before bottling. From the ever creative and driven Julien Sunier comes this "anytime red" , as he fondly refers to it. Wild Soul, like most of Sunier's fruit, is farmed and