Jean Foillard, Morgon Cote du Py, 2024 Grower Champagne yet these vines remain healthy

yet these vines remain healthy over three decades later

There’s richness without sweetness

and a mineral tension that keeps everything on its toes

The 2018 vintage delivers richness and muscle

Jean Foillard, Morgon Cote du Py, 2024 Grower Champagne yet these vines remain healthyDo 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