Nouveau 2022!
BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU 2022
We're pleased to confirm that we will have Beaujolais Nouveau from Mathilde & Sylvere at Séléné this year!
Yields have been kind to them in the Beaujolais this year, and this year we'll have two Nouveau's available. One from their own fruit grown on the domaine, farmed organically and according to Biodynamic principles, the other using fruit purchased from 4 small neighbouring vineyards: 3 certified organic and 1 in their final year of conversation.
These wines are available to pre-order below, to be collected from 161 on Nouveau Day: Thursday 17th November.
We're planning a nice Nouveau Night too, with oysters, big pots of something delicious, and plenty of Primeurs flowing by the glass. Please join us to celebrate the first wines to be released from the 2022 vintage. Booking information here!
NOUVEAU REPORT!
Speaking with Sylvere at the end of September, he talked about what an unbelievably dry vintage they had, and how proud he was to have been able to produce wines with more acidity than 2020 or 2018:
“We had to pick unbelievably early this year. The harvest finished on Monday 5th September! The year had begun really nicely, so the fruit got a good start, but the rain dried up in June, right up until the week before harvest. We were lucky, the week before harvest we had miraculous rain, which really helped the acidity in the grapes. We definitely saw some hydric stress in the vines between June and September though, and whilst the yields have been good, the grapes were quite a bit smaller.”
“I’m very happy with how we’ve worked this year though, and whilst most of the main wines will have a little more structure and colour, they’ll have beautiful potential for ageing. For both Primeurs, we just did a very short, 5 day carbonic maceration, to keep the colour low, keep things fresh. They’re just finishing fermentation now in (concrete) tank, nearly there. I’m very happy with them”
