Billards (Barbet), Saint-Amour Reserve, 2009 green herbs and salty finish. Unfiltered and unfined and green apple

and green apple

Goury uses manual harvests

The trick that makes it sing is a co-fermentation with a small dose of Viognier (5 to 10 percent)

capturing the site’s volcanic soils and cool-climate energy

and will be great for the next 5-10 years or more

Billards (Barbet), Saint-Amour Reserve, 2009 green herbs and salty finish. Unfiltered and unfined and green appleSaint Amour might have the most romantic name in Beaujolais, and Domaine des Billards makes one of its most serious versions. The five hectare estate sits on the cru's southeast mid slope, on sandstone, granite and clay, farmed traditionally without herbicides; the Gamay is vinified semi carbonic with gentle extraction. This is the Reserve bottling from 2009, a warm and generous vintage, now mature and showing the savory complexity that good cru