2021 Antoine Sunier Regnie

91 Points from Vinous: "The 2021 Régnié is matured 50% in concrete vats for seven months and just sulphited before bottling. This has a little more cohesion than the Montremond, a little more backward in style. It's nicely focused with fine tannins and a mineral-driven finish. This has the upper hand over the Montremond at the moment.

Part of the “Biojolais” movement, Antoine Sunier has followed in his older brother Julien's footsteps after starting a telecommunications career. (As an aside, I was fascinated to learn on Polaner Selections’ website that his mother was a hairdresser and cut the locks of no less than Christophe Roumier.) Inspired by both his sibling and winemaker Jean-Claude Lapalu, Sunier found organically-farmed parcels of vines in Régnié and Morgon. Of course, Sunier practices low intervention in both the vineyard and the winery, his vines certified for over a decade. Fermentations commence naturally, and in 2021, Sunier told me that he undertook a shorter maceration because of the mildew—nine days instead of twelve days—before aging mainly in used barrels and a little in concrete vat." (March 2023)