Wine Advocate 91
"Offering up aromas of sweet red berries, orange oil, spices and vine smoke, the 2021 Beaujolais-Villages Le Perréon is a medium to full-bodied, ample and lively wine built around supple tannins, concluding with a saline finish. It's a charming, expressive wine from the high-altitude granitic slopes of Perréon in the southern Beaujolais."

The Wine
Organic Farming
From low-yielding Gamay clones
Very old vines 50 years old on average, with many 75-00 years old!
Le Perreon should be a Cru Village!
Steep & high altitude vines (450m)
Grown on decomposed, rose colored granite
No carbonic maceration
Aged in tank and concrete

The Estate
Domaine de la Madone is one of our favoritesfew estates craft such character-rich, expressive Gamay outside of Beaujolais band of cru villages. But thats Madones secrettheir vineyards should be rated Beaujolais cru (or grand cru, if we had any say in it). This is certainly one of the finest values for the quality anywhere in the world.

There are many terroir parallels between the village of Le Perron and cru Fleurie, a village known for its aromatic and wonderfully elegant Gamay. Brothers Olivier and Bruno Bererd tend almost exclusively older vines, many which are more than 100 years old. The familys steep hillside vineyards are a challenge to harvest (at an angle of 30 to 40 degrees!); the brothers cant drive a tractor through their fields, as its too dangerouspickers have to scoot along at severe angles and struggle with a wheelbarrow as grapes are painstakingly collected at harvest.

Our selection of Beaujolais Le Perreon from is vinified gently in tank, to preserve every bit of fresh, aromatic and juicy fruit.

Farming Practice:Practicing Organic