Sébastien Morin is an exciting young winemaker based in the southern Beaujolais town of Saint-Étienne-des-Oullières. His journey to becoming a winemaker began in the early 2000s after a chance encounter with Jura legend Jean-Marc Brignot. A friendship blossomed between the two and Seb spent much of the next decade juggling his desk job in Paris with travelling to Jura to observe and assist in the Brignot cellar. Today he has 1.5 hectares of Gamay vines which he looks after without herbicides or pesticides.

Paradoxe is from a 70 year old plot of Gamay planted on sandy granitic soil. Whole bunches of grapes were left to macerate for 2 months before being pressed into cuve until the end of June. Incredibly satisfying now but we feel it will reward those patient enough to cellar for a few years.