Sébastien Morin
Saint-Étienne-des-Oullières, Beaujolais

Seb’s 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. He is counted as one of the very privileged few to stand with Jean-Marc at the press, often throughout the night, and although he has certainly forged his own style, he does not deny he has been greatly influenced by the near mythical vigneron. 

Since 2015 he has been based in the southern Beaujolais town of Saint-Étienne-des-Oullières farming 1.5 hectares of old vine Gamay just yards from his cellar door. Working at this scale has allowed for a keen eye on the life of his parcels whilst working through the challenges of several exceptionally difficult growing seasons. 

As per much of what he observed from Brignot, Seb's work in his own cellar is gentle and respectful with a long, slow press favoured and all rackings fed by gravity. There are no additions of any kind. 

With losses expected during a challenging 2021, Seb sought grapes from friends around Beaujolais and south-west France and vinified his first white cuvées. The little wine he did make from his own vines sees a return to the structure of his 2019s - deep, perfumed and totally individual renditions of the Gamay grape that will surely age with aplomb.