{"title":"Elisa Guerin","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"elisa-guerin-chiroubles","title":"Chiroubles 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeppercorn spice and deep fruits leap from the glass, the texture of the wine is beautifully soft and silky, with integrated, lightly gripping tannic structure. There is a rusty, iron-like mineral quality beneath it all, that really shows itself in the long, stony finish. A truly elegant wine that demonstrates the complexity of its old-vine origin. Reflecting the heat of a scorching vintage, with little rain, the structure is bolder and more concentrated than previous vintages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e100% Gamay from the Guerin’s prized plot of 50 year-old, massal selection vines, planted over sandy, decomposed granite, also in the early stages of organic conversion. The grapes see a short semi-carbonic maceration in whole bunches, with both fermentation and élevage taking place in concrete tanks. The wine is bottled 8 months later. With some altitude over the Moulin-à-Vent and Village wines, this is the more delicate, finessed expression.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elisa Guerin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44001686782182,"sku":"WAY-GUERIN-CHIROUBLES-22","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8259\/2742\/files\/GUERINCHIROUBLES13.5_2020ED_47da6ef9-5faf-425c-a6c2-5d8f57a87cc2.jpg?v=1699188589"},{"product_id":"elisa-guerin-beaujolais-villages-2024","title":"Beaujolais-Villages 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA firm house favourite, Elisa's 2024 Beaujolais-Villages rouge comes replete with glossy, vibrant verve, savoury spices and powdery, perfumed aromatics - exactly what we look for in great Gamay.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlways incredibly drinkable, with a nose of cherries, crushed peppercorn spice and violet flowers, followed by some freshly crushed berry fruit and a lick of acidity, all underpinned with pronounced stony minerals. This year there is a welcome density to the fruit, whilst retaining a sleek and fluid character. Fantastically fine-grained tannins imprint a detailed granular feel in the finish. Juicy, vivid and wonderfully pure, it's another laudable vintage for this versatile and accessible cuvée.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e100% Gamay from a parcel south of the family domaine in Quincié, converted by Elisa over 5 years and now certified organic. Planted over soils of blue schist, sandy granite and limestone, the vines are around 50 years old. The grapes are placed in concrete tanks as complete bunches with no crushing to undergo carbonic maceration. With no pigéage or pumping over, they are then pressed off after 8 days, before being returned to concrete for 6 months to come to rest. Racked with the turn of the moon, it was bottled in March 2025.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elisa Guerin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55919450489214,"sku":"WAY-GUERIN-BEAUJ-VILLAGES-24","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8259\/2742\/files\/ElisaGuerinBeaujolaisVillages2024.jpg?v=1755774962"},{"product_id":"elisa-guerin-les-thorins-moulin-a-vent-2023","title":"Moulin-à-Vent 'Les Thorins' 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe darkest, most brooding and structured of Elisa's cuvées, introducing elements of barrel ageing. 'Les Thorins' is a single 1.5 hectare plot of 60 year-old vines in Moulin-à-Vent, planted over a very specific soil type known locally as 'gorrha' - a dusty, iron-rich mix of decomposed granite, quartz sands and clay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrue to the expression of the cru, there is an elegant muscularity on display, with dark red fruits and spice intermingling over a rusty mineral streak. Despite a slightly cooler 2023, it nevertheless radiates power and density, with a rounded, silken mouthfeel. Everything to suggest that this wine will develop very nicely over the coming years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a 14-day whole-bunch semi-carbonic maceration in concrete, the grapes at the bottom of the tank being crushed under the weight of those at the top. Bearing the boldest structure of all of Elisa's cru wines, she carries out three pump-overs in this time. After pressing, 80% of the wine remained in concrete and 20% was transferred to old 220-litre oak barrels for 10 months of élevage, before bottling without filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elisa Guerin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55919457403262,"sku":"WAY-GUERIN-THORINS-23","price":33.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8259\/2742\/files\/ElisaGuerinLesThorins2023.jpg?v=1761322050"},{"product_id":"elisa-guerin-champ-de-coeur-moulin-a-vent","title":"Moulin-à-Vent 'Champ de Cour' 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eA special cuvée made only in exceptional years, of which 2023 was deemed to be in this part of Beaujolais. 'Champ de Cour' is a single small parcel at just 0.4 hectares that ordinarily serves as a component of '\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/waywardwines.co.uk\/products\/elisa-guerin-la-vigne-de-mon-pere-moulin-a-vent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eLa Vigne de Mon Pere\u003c\/a\u003e'. Here we see a hyper-specific expression of terroir, this parcel singled out to make its own unique wine owing to its sandy decomposed granite soils having a high content of the manganese minerals - something closely associated with fine structure and ageability of wines from this cru. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most delicately-extracted of all her Moulin-à-Vent wines, here we have beautifully elevated floral aromas coiling around spices of peppercorn and capsicum flesh, with a pronounced petrichor minerality. Sleek and plush across the palate, pretty red and black fruits tail into an elegant finish of iron and wet stones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom massal selection vines between 40 and 70 years of age, grapes were placed in large concrete tanks so go through a semi-carbonic maceration over a fortnight, the weight of the grapes at the top crushing those at the bottom of the tank and with just a couple of punch-downs towards the end of fermentation. It was then pressed off, half into old 220-litre barrels and half into fibreglass cuve to rest for 10 months, with no filtration before bottling. Only 1300 bottles made in total.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elisa Guerin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55919471690110,"sku":"WAY-GUERIN-CHAMP-23","price":43.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8259\/2742\/files\/ElisaGuerinChampdeCoeur.jpg?v=1761321852"}],"url":"https:\/\/waywardwines.co.uk\/collections\/elisa-guerin\/region-beaujolais.oembed","provider":"Wayward Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}