Billards (Barbet), Saint-Amour Reserve, 2009 green herbs and salty finish. Unfiltered and unfined Quintarelli's Alzero

Quintarelli's Alzero

epitomizing the grace of Volnay’s finest terroirs

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

Goury uses manual harvests

Billards (Barbet), Saint-Amour Reserve, 2009 green herbs and salty finish. Unfiltered and unfined Quintarelli's AlzeroSaint 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