Domaine Saint-Cyr Beaujolais La Galoche Rouge 2025

Name: Domaine Saint-Cyr Beaujolais La Galoche Rouge 2025
Brand: Mission Wine Merchants [MWM]
SKU: SF-1-MWM--070226-48
Price: 23.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$23⁹⁹

La Galoche is named for the little stream that runs past the winery, and it's the wine Raphael Saint-Cyr makes the most of by a wide margin. That volume is exactly the point. He took over the family estate at Anse in 2008, converted every last hectare to organic farming, and made Saint-Cyr the largest organic domaine in Beaujolais, proving you can farm this way at scale without turning Gamay into a luxury item. The grapes go into concrete whole and cold for a long carbonic maceration, ferment on native yeasts, then rest six months in tank and go to bottle unfiltered. What comes out is the joyful, gulpable end of Beaujolais rather than the serious one. Give it twenty minutes in the fridge and don't overthink it.

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Antonio Galloni

89 points

"The 2025 Beaujolais La Galoche had been bottled the morning of the tasting according to "Raph". It comes from six terroirs of 10 to 60-year-old vines that undergo 18 days' carbonic maceration, each parcel aged separately for six months and blended just before bottling, with 10mg of SO2 added. It has a very pure bouquet with red cherries and wild strawberry fruit that feels very harmonious. The palate had just a touch of spritz on the entry, a keen line of acidity, slightly chalky tannins and a tensile finish." —Neal Martin

More about Domaine Saint-Cyr

When Raphael Saint Cyr took over as the 4th generation of winemakers for his family's estate in Southern Beaujolais, things were, shall we say, a bit stuck in the past. For many decades the estate produced mostly basic Beaujolais and Nouveau. Farming, like much of Beaujolais and Macon, was done with chemical enhancements, and high yields were their bread and butter. It felt more like 1988 than 2008.

But Raphael had seen the negative health effects of all the pesticides and herbicides on his father and grandfather, so the first thing he did was to begin converting all his vineyards to organic farming. He also knew that if he wanted to explore the full range of terroir in his region he needed to obtain some cru holdings. So he sold off a chunk of the less desirable parcels and purchased vines in Morgon, Moulin-a-Vent, Chenas and Fleurie.

Then, and this is maybe the key, he started spending a lot of time with fellow vigneron Yann Bertrand and Pierre Cotton. Making wine in a fresh, natural and yet terroir focused way became his goal. He reduced sulphur additions, used only native yeasts and did cold, carbonic macerations for all his cuvées. These techniques coupled with Raphael’s intrinsic winemaking talents have led to a rapid improvement in quality over the last decade.

Those efforts have paid off handsomely. Demand for his wines has skyrocketed and you can now find some of the best natural wine bars and bottle shops from his home in Villefranche-sur-Saône to Tokyo.