Anthony Thévenet Beaujolais Villages 2018

Alongside the likes of Justin Dutraive, Pierre Cotton, Yann Bertrand, Jules Metras and Keke Descombes; Anthony Thévenet forms part of the young new guard of vigneron, defending the purity of Cru Beaujolais.

Neighbour to Domaine Lapierre and Jean Foillard in Villié-Morgon, Anthony Thévenet stands proud amongst the 40-153 year old vines he inherited from his late grandfather in 2010 in the small town of Douby.

Vine age; 50 – 78 years old. Hand picked as bunches at an elevation of 230m on sandy soils with a top layer of gravel. To retain freshness and purity, a short carbonic maceration in concrete vats for 8 days, later followed by full natural malolactic fermentation in concrete also. The majority remained in concrete for maturation on lees whilst a third was sent to old 600L demi-muids for 3 months. The resulting wine was then blended and sent to bottle without fining, filtration and finished with less that 10mg/l of SO2 added.