Soleil Couchant Saint-Amour from one of the ten top sub-regional Beaujolais Crus.  In fact Saint-Amour is known as the most romantic Beaujolais Cru and appropriately enough, the winemaker Samantha Bailey, got married here.

A wine that offers delicious red berry fruit aromas, backed by a touch of savoury liquorice and notes of white pepper that provide complexity and a silky lasting finish.

Delicious served lightly chilled with paté or chicken roasted with herbs, garlic and butter. Perfect with soft cheeses such as Brie and Camembert.

Vineyard and Winemaking

Bequeathing its name from Amor, a Roman Legionnaire who took refuge in the area after refusing to fight the Christians, and long since associated with love and romance, Saint-Amour, with its mixture of granite, schist and clay produces both soft, floral, fruit driven wines and more powerful complex wines that can be aged for up to 5 years. The vines are at least 50 years of age, with yields below the appellation maximum, and are managed following ‘High Environmental Value’ (HVE) principles. Grapes are hand-harvested and immediately cooled as they arrive at the cellar. The grapes are de-stemmed the majority of the time to gain complexity without hard tannins followed by a semi-carbonic maceration and a slow fermentation.