{"title":"The newest releases from Guy Breton prove once again why he is one of Beaujolais' greats.","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"morgon-vieilles-vignes-guy-breton-2023","title":"Morgon Vieilles Vignes Guy Breton 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e80+ year old bush vines.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe concentration and precision of fruit is remarkable - sweet cranberry, blackcurrant and black cherry. The nose is suggestive of a forest during summertime, with scent of wild flowers and violets, liquorice, mint, fern and hummus. Beautifully balanced, the acidity adding freshness to the fruits and the velvety texture adding charms to the savoury notes. A complete wine that has many years of interesting evolution ahead of it, but which is fully opened already.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#Tasting#\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the famed ‘Gang of Four’ along with Jean Foillard, Jean-Paul Thevenet and Marcel Lapierre credited with starting the natural wine movement around the village of Villié-Morgon in the 1980s, Guy Breton is rightly considered one of the most important Beaujolais producers in recent history. Sure, natural wine has become trendy McTrendy, but we prefer to concentrate on the i\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003entrinsic quality of the wines and ecologically responsible farming. His winemaking method never differs for his cru wines, carbonic fermentation in tank for 2-4 weeks, pressing when there is just a nib of tannin, and long ageing sue lie in old barrels, as for him, this simple and consistent process ensures the best expression of each village's unique terroir.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GUY BRETON","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55621351047554,"sku":"A5080123","price":34.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2466\/1541\/files\/BC_Upload_6e7e2e6e-09e7-4b72-b661-d9706ce7c217.png?v=1756743645"},{"product_id":"beaujolais-marylou-guy-breton-2024","title":"Beaujolais Marylou Guy Breton 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eSo vibrant and fragrant and best served just chilled. So light on its feet. Redcurrants, tiny strawberries, crunchy pomegranate seeds with raspberry coulis, married together with a soft spice. Cleansing, vibrant acidity makes this feel fresh on the palate.  If we could start every day with a small nip of lightly chilled Marylou, we think the world would be a much happier place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#Tasting#\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the famed ‘Gang of Four’ (Breton, Jean Foillard, Jean-Paul Thevenet and Marcel Lapierre) credited with starting the natural wine movement around the village of Villié-Morgon in the 1980s, Guy Breton is rightly considered one of the most important\u003cbr\u003eBeaujolais producers in recent history. Sure, natural wine has become trendy McTrendy, but we prefer to concentrate on the intrinsic quality of the wines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom just over 3ha of old vines around the crus of Morgon, Chiroubles, Regnié and Cote de Brouilly, Breton’s Beaujolais are possessed of a fruity vibrancy, ethereality and minerality which makes the mind boggle, showing what can be done when low-intervention, low- or no-sulphur winemaking is allied to obsessively careful vineyard management and a deep understanding of Jules Chauvet's methods for working with gamay. In Beaujolais terms, Breton remains a bona fide don.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GUY BRETON","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56319458935170,"sku":"A5060124","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2466\/1541\/files\/BC_Upload_837e68e9-8dfa-4af6-968a-84e2c51551f4.jpg?v=1770383231"}],"url":"https:\/\/swig.co.uk\/collections\/the-newest-releases-from-guy-breton-prove-once-again-why-he-is-one-of-beaujolais-greats.oembed","provider":"Swig Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}