Region: France - Beaujolais
Grapes: Gamay
Alcohol: 12%
Notes on the Wine
From Gamay grapes hand picked in October, the wine undergoes carbonic maceration with natural yeasts in enamel tanks, each parcel separate from the other. Some pumping over ensues to stimulate activity before the wine is moved to foudre to rest on lees.
Notes on the Producer
Chateau Cambon is the joint venture to produce great, natural Beaujolais between the famed estates of Marcel Lapierre and Joseph Chamonard. In 1981, his path would be forever changed by Jules Chauvet, a man whom many now call his spiritual godfather. Chauvet was a winemaker, a researcher, a chemist, and a viticultural prophet. It was he who, upon the advent of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in the 1950s, first spoke out for “natural wine,” harkening back to the traditional methods of the Beaujolais.
