Dominique Piron’s family history in Beaujolais spans more than four centuries, with his oldest known ancestor born in Morgon in 1590. Since then, there have been 14 generations of winegrowers in the family. Dominique seeks to create characterful terroir wines that are fruity, subtle and elegant from his sloping vineyards of fragmented granite and schist. These are wines that showed us what we’d long been looking for from Beaujolais but had almost given up hope of finding. 

Gushing with strawberry, raspberry and plum aromas this Beaujolais-Latignie is hard to resist, but there’s also a very well-crafted tannin structure behind all the charm, which very neatly counterpoints the juiciness on the medium-bodied palate. Then the clean finish pulls you back for more. Drink or hold. Tasted: March 2022; Rating: 92 Points; James Suckling