Beaujolais wineries range from multigenerational families farming the granite hills of the north to growers in the southern clay working at village level. Browse independent producers and buy directly from the cellar.
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The wines of Beaujolais sit at the northern edge of the region, where granite and schist give Gamay a mineral edge and the structure to age. Moulin-à-Vent and Morgon are the two crus most often cellared; Fleurie and Chiroubles tend to be lighter and earlier. Further south, the clay soils of the Beaujolais Villages and regional appellations produce rounder, more immediately drinkable reds. The range across a single grape and a compact stretch of land is wider than most expect.
Several of the growers here also offer a wine case: six bottles from their own cellar, put together as a single recommendation rather than drawn from multiple estates. A Beaujolais case is a direct way to follow one producer across their crus or across a vintage, chosen by the person who made the wines and shipped from the same cellar. Free Grape Society is a society of producers, independent experts and wine lovers, not a shop, and the cases reflect that.
Independent wine experts on Free Grape Society rate and review wines they have personally tasted. Their reviews appear on the wine page and on each expert's own profile, building a public track record over time. Several of the experts below have reviewed wines from Beaujolais producers featured on this page.
Browse the producers listed on this page and open any winery profile to see their wines. Add bottles to your cart and check out using Klarna or card. The order ships directly from the producer's cellar in Beaujolais, with free delivery to your door within 4 to 14 days. There is no importer or warehouse in between.
Send a photo to Free Grape Society customer support within 7 days of delivery. We will arrange a replacement or a refund. Because producers ship directly, quality issues are handled with the producer's direct involvement. Shared responsibility is built into how FGS works.
Yes. You can add wines from different Beaujolais producers to the same cart. Each producer ships their own bottles separately from their own cellar, so you may receive more than one delivery. Shipping is free from each producer, and you will get a tracking update for each parcel.
Average delivery is 8 to 9 days from order to door. The full range is 4 to 14 days depending on the producer's location and your delivery address. Wines ship directly from the producer's cellar, not from a central warehouse.
If you know which cru you want — Morgon, Fleurie, Moulin-à-Vent — start there and look for producers based in that appellation. If you are less certain, open a few winery profiles and read how the grower describes their farming and cellar work. You can also ask a wine expert for a personal recommendation from the Beaujolais producers listed here.
Producers send samples, and those samples are tasted before a wine is listed. We look for growers with a direct relationship to their vineyards and pricing that reflects the work without the mark-ups added by importers and warehouses. Independent wine experts then rate and review individual wines, adding a public layer of assessment that buyers can read on each wine page.
The wine experts listed on this page have experience with Beaujolais and can give you a personal recommendation. Fill in the question form on any expert's profile and they will get back to you with suggestions based on what you are looking for, whether that is a specific cru, a lighter style, or something to cellar.
We list wines that have been tasted before listing and that we have a direct relationship with the producer to supply. Not every wine in a grower's range fits that process at any given time. Some producers list a focused selection rather than their full output, and the range grows as the relationship develops.
In most wine retail, a Beaujolais bottle passes through an importer and a distributor before it reaches the shelf, and each step adds a margin. On Free Grape Society the producer ships directly, so the price reflects the cellar rather than the supply chain. You also get access to independent expert reviews and can ask a wine expert for advice before you buy.
Beaujolais sits in the southern reaches of the Burgundy corridor, but it stands apart from its northern neighbour in almost every practical sense. The region's producers are mostly small family estates, farming the granite and schist slopes of the Haut-Beaujolais by hand. Gamay is the only red grape they work with, and across the region's ten named crus — Moulin-à-Vent, Morgon, Fleurie, Brouilly, Côte de Brouilly, Chénas, Chiroubles, Juliénas, Saint-Amour and Régnié — the same grape produces wines that taste markedly different from one hill to the next. A Morgon, grown on deep decomposed schist, tends to be structured and age-worthy; a Chiroubles, grown higher and on lighter soils, is floral and light on its feet. Understanding which cru a producer farms tells you as much about the wine as the vintage does. Beyond the crus, villages-level and regional Beaujolais accounts for most of the volume, and several of the growers listed here work across more than one classification. Browse Beaujolais wineries or explore the wines from Beaujolais they produce.
We work directly with the growers, which means we get to know how they farm and what they charge before a single bottle is listed. Producers send samples, and those samples are tasted before a wine goes live on Free Grape Society. The decision rests on what is in the glass rather than on a label or a reputation. We look for pricing that reflects the actual work in the vineyard and cellar, without the mark-ups that importers and large warehouses add along the way, and we keep the relationship direct so the grower sets their own terms. Beaujolais has a strong tradition of small, independent domaines, many of them farming organically or biodynamically without making a commercial point of it, and that suits how Free Grape Society works. Once a wine is listed, independent wine experts rate and review individual bottles, building a public track record that buyers can read on the wine page. We list wines tasted before listing, from producers we have a direct relationship with — not every wine a producer makes, and not every producer in the region, but the ones whose work and whose prices make direct trade worthwhile for both sides.
The dominant winemaking method associated with Beaujolais is carbonic maceration, where whole, uncrushed grapes ferment inside a sealed tank filled with carbon dioxide. The berries begin to ferment from the inside out, which draws out fresh fruit and colour while keeping tannin low. This is the method behind Beaujolais Nouveau, the wine released on the third Thursday of November each year, but it is also used in varying degrees across the crus. Many of the region's more serious producers now work with partial or full destemming and longer macerations, moving toward wines that reward a few years in the cellar rather than drinking best in the month of release. The Gamay grape grown on granite soils — particularly in Moulin-à-Vent and Morgon — produces wines that develop secondary complexity over four to eight years, a side of Beaujolais that sits some distance from the Nouveau reputation. Producers in the region also make a small amount of white wine from Chardonnay, sold under the Beaujolais Blanc appellation, and some rosé. For context on the wider French wine landscape these producers sit within, or to compare with neighbouring Burgundy wineries and the Rhône Valley, the region's neighbours to the north and south respectively.
