Region: France - Beaujolais
Grapes: Gamay
Alcohol: 13%
Notes on the Wine
Delicate aromas of fresh fruits and slight acidity make this a harmonious, delicate wine for the Summer which will go wonderfully well with mixed salads and grilled meats to enjoy a good time in the shade of a gazebo with a few olives.
Notes on the Producer
Just like the vines themselves, we’ve put down our roots in this vineyard for a great many generations; we are proud to perpetuate and maintain the work started by our ancestors. This continuity gives a deep meaning to our activity and a responsibility towards the future of this corner of France.
We take particular care of our soils, a real cradle for our wines and the source of their character. A healthy, living soil enables the vine to draw on the essence of the terroir. Thus the growing methods are adapted depending on the characteristics of each plot and the weather of the year.
Natural grassing, planting flower strips, eco-grazing by our sheep, light tilling beneath the vines, together with the regular addition of compost and natural products to stimulate the vine’s defences, are all growing techniques that help us maintain and improve the biological activity of our soils.
We are constantly looking to optimize our growing practices, to ensure a perfect balance in the vineyard’s ecosystem with vines in good health and grapes of optimum quality, faithfully reflecting their origins.
In wine-growing, we often talk about “Terroir” — this magical ensemble of elements in a specific spot that makes a wine unique, that gives it a personality and brings it alive in a way that no œnological technique is capable of re-creating.
The soil and its structure form the principal player in the expression of the terroir. It is only by understanding and respecting the identity of the terroir that it can fully express itself through the wines and will be able to bring out the best of this divine product, born of the earth and the heavens.
Our estate’s wines are characterized by three principal terroirs:
The “blue rock” of Mont Brouilly, surrounded by the granitic arenas, and further south, by the clay/limestone soils of Theizé.
We are lucky to find very different terroirs around our estate, all equally interesting for our grape varieties. A volcanic terroir on the Côte de Brouilly, a granitic terroir in Brouilly, and a clay/limestone terroir for our Chardonnays.
