Jean Foillard, Morgon Cote du Py, 2024 Grower Champagne A landmark bottle that asks

A landmark bottle that asks for a decant and rewards patience

everyday Medoc claret from the left bank of Bordeaux

Les Parcelles is their calling card: mostly Pinot Noir (with a little Chardonnay for snap)

Priorat Garnatxa from a biologist who came home to farm her grandfather's vines

this wine sits at 750 feet on sandy loam soils less than four miles from Monterey Bay

Jean Foillard, Morgon Cote du Py, 2024 Grower Champagne A landmark bottle that asksDo you remember your first taste of a living, no makeup Beaujolais? For a lot of us it was Foillard Cote du Py. Jean Foillard is one of Kermit Lynch's original "Gang of Four," the Morgon growers who showed the world that Gamay could be both serious and simple, all lush fruit and refreshing minerality. The Cote du Py is the heart of it: an old volcanic hill of decomposed blue schist, shot through with granite and manganese, that gives Morgon its depth