The Winery Jean Foillard of Beaujolais

Winery Jean Foillard - Alizarine
The winery offers 13 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 2 of the estates of Beaujolais.
It is located in Beaujolais

The Winery Jean Foillard is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Beaujolais to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Jean Foillard wines

Looking for the best Winery Jean Foillard wines in Beaujolais among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Jean Foillard wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Jean Foillard wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Jean Foillard

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Jean Foillard

How Winery Jean Foillard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of fideuà (paella with pasta and fish), veal escalope with lemon sauce or chicken ballotine with ham and mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Jean Foillard

On the nose the red wine of Winery Jean Foillard. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, mint or game and sometimes also flavors of tomatoes, green herbs or black plum. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Jean Foillard. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Jean Foillard

  • 2007With an average score of 4.16/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.13/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.09/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.09/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.09/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.08/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Jean Foillard.

  • Gamay

Discovering the wine region of Beaujolais

Beaujolais is an important wine region in eastern France, famous for its vibrant, Fruity red wines made from Gamay. It is located immediately South of Burgundy, of which it is sometimes considered a Part, although it is in the administrative region of Rhône. The extensive plantings of Gamay in this region make Beaujolais one of the few regions in the world that is so concentrated on a single Grape variety. Pinot Noir is used in small quantities in red and rosé wines, but in the name of regional identity, it is being phased out and will only be allowed until the 2015 harvest.

Although best known for its red wines, the region also produces white Beaujolais Blanc, from Chardonnay and Aligote. These two white wine varieties are also sometimes used in local red wines, in which they can make up to 15% of the Final blend. There are several forms of Beaujolais red wine: standard Beaujolais (including Beaujolais Supérieur), Beaujolais Villages and the Young, characterful Beaujolais Nouveau. The highest quality wines of the region are those of the ten Beaujolais crus - ten wine regions Long recognized as the best in the region.

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Planning a wine route in the of Beaujolais? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Jean Foillard.

Discover the grape variety: Artaban

Wine grape variety of the INRA-Resdur1 series with polygenic resistance (two genes for mildew and powdery mildew have been identified) resulting from an interspecific cross, obtained in 2000, between Mtp 3082-1-42 (one of its parents is Vitis rotundifolia, which is resistant to Pierce's disease, mildew, grey rot, etc.) and Regent. It is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties list A1.

News about Winery Jean Foillard and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: BSA

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