Saint Amour: Domaine Matray

Product Type: Wine - Red

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Rich red fruit aromas and flavours that combine suppleness and finesse with the ardour and elegance that made its name.

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Tasting Notes

Rich red fruit aromas and flavours that combine suppleness and finesse with the ardour and elegance that made its name.

Wine Information

Vintage	2023/2025
Region	Beaujolais
Appellation	Saint Amour
Style	Red
Producer	Domaine Matray
Grapes	100% Gamay
Pairing	Pork
Keeping	Drink within 5 years of bottling.
Viticulture	Uses High Environmental Value Farm products in production
Vinification	The harvest takes place in mid-September. All the grapes are picked manually as the Beaujolais semi carbonic winemaking process requires that the bunches be whole. Pressing is after 8 days of vatting, followed by malo-lactic fermentation and maturing in vats.
Bottle	75cl
Volume	2023 - 14.0%, 2025 - 13.0%

Region and Appellation Information

Region – Beaujolais

Offering a deep ruby red, Beaujolais is more than just a wine; it's an agricultural region that produces as many as 2.3 billion bottles of red wine per year. This French wine is renowned for its fruity taste and robust structure and has been popular since the 19th century. Beaujolais wines are also rich in pigments of carotenoids which give the wines their characteristic dark purple hue. The wine is typically made from the Gamay grape which is one of the darkest of red grapes.

Appellation – Saint Amour

The furthest north of the Crus in the Beaujolais region, and the second smallest at 310 hectares, Saint-Amour takes its name - according to local legend - from St. Amateur, a Roman soldier who converted to Christianity after escaping death and founded a monastery there. A Saint-Amour is refined, retaining the fruitiness of the Gamay grape, with spicy flavours, aromas of gooseberry and peach, and a very intense colour. It is widely considered to be the unofficial wine of Valentine's Day.

Domaine Matray

From a winemaking family spanning 5 generations, Lilian Matray, his wife Sandrine and his daughter Célia work the family estate.

The estate buildings are in Juliénas, a charming little Beaujolais village, while the estate’s vines grow on 11 hectares of slopes that are not only in the Juliénas appellation area. The variety of the soils give the very typical, fruity Beaujolais aromas and flavours of each specific appellation.