Billards (Barbet), Saint-Amour Reserve, 2009 green herbs and salty finish. Unfiltered and unfined and delicately structured

and delicately structured

applying minimalist philosophy to sparkling wine that historically belongs to Champagne

and green apple

and no new oak

Roagna's parcel

Billards (Barbet), Saint-Amour Reserve, 2009 green herbs and salty finish. Unfiltered and unfined and delicately structuredSaint 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