What it pairs with
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Roast duck leg with cherries
The floral fruit of Belair echoes cherry-glazed duck preparations. -
Chicken liver salad with mustard dressing
Mineral Gamay from Belair suits iron-rich liver in a salad context. -
Cheese board with soft and firm styles
The balanced Belair works across a range of cheese styles.
History
Belair is a lieu-dit in Morgon on transitional schist-clay soils. Foillard's Belair cuvee was first produced in 2008 and occupies a stylistic middle ground between the approachable 3.14 and the more structured Cote du Py.
- 2008 — Belair lieu-dit first bottled as a separate cuvee by Foillard
Facts
- Producer
- Domaine Jean Foillard
- Grapes
- Gamay
- Classification
- Morgon AOC
- Oak
- Old large oak foudres; Belair parcel on schist-clay transitional soils
- ABV
- 12.8%
- Price
- EUR 28-42 at retail
- Drinking window
- 3-12 from vintage
- First vintage
- 2008
- Biodynamic
- Biodynamic Practicing
- Organic
- ORGANIC CERTIFIED
- Vegan
- Yes (no animal-derived fining)