Saint Amour: Domaine Matray 2018

Tasting Notes

This charmingly-named Cru will seduce you with its glistening ruby robe and its rich red fruit aromas and flavours that combine suppleness and finesse with the ardour and elegance that made its name.

Wine Info

	Region	Beaujolais
	Appellation	Saint Amour
	Style	Red
	Producer	Domaine Matray
	Grapes	100% Gamay
	Pairing
	Keeping	Drink within 5 years of bottling.
	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	13.0%

Producer

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.