La Dernière Goutte Gamay Sans Frontieres 2020

Gamay Sans Frontieres is a 100% Gamay from Cyrille Vuillod's vines around Vaux-en-Beaujolais, on the edge of Brouilly. The grapes come from a mix of old and young vines planted on pink granitic sand, flint, and clay — a soil profile that keeps the wine tense and mineral even in a warm year like 2020. It is bottled under the Vin de France designation.

In the cellar, Cyrille uses full carbonic maceration for 20 days, then ages the wine for 5 months in concrete vats. Nothing is added: no fining, no filtration, no sulfur at any stage. The result is a wine with a slight prickle of CO2 on the palate, a natural byproduct of this low-intervention approach.

The 2020 vintage was warm and dry in Beaujolais, producing grapes with excellent health and ripe aromatic profiles. For this cuvée, that translates to more density than earlier vintages — richer raspberry and earthy notes with a spicy edge — while still drinking fresh and alive.

Cyrille farms just under 5 hectares organically and works biodynamically, without holding any formal certification. No sulfur is used at any point in the winemaking, and all wines leave the cellar unfined and unfiltered.