Region: France - Beaujolais - Brouilly
Grapes: Gamay
Alcohol: 13%
Notes on the Wine
This cuvée is crunchy and fruity, with a soft, glou glou style that is completely charming. La Croquante is an assemblage of vines planted on the pink granite soils of Brouilly—fresh, racy, and fun.
Whole bunches are handpicked in small crates and selected in the vineyard. Eight days of whole-cluster, semi-carbonic maceration is followed by a very gentle and slow pressing using the château’s old, wooden vertical press. The must is transferred into temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, where fermentation continues with native yeasts. After racking, the wine spends 6-8 months in 50-year-old foudres before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. A very small amount of sulfur is used at bottling.
Notes on the Producer
Built on the slopes of Mont Brouilly, our domain is carved in the famous blue stone. It was in 1967 that Annie and Louis BASSY acquired 4 hectares of vines on the slopes of Mont Brouilly with the firm intention of building their own estate there. An explosive and daring idea at a time when sharecropping is de rigueur. From the outset, they marketed most of their production through direct sales, welcoming increasingly loyal customers to the estate in a good mood.
Dominique then cultivated the vines like a garden, meticulously, with passion and respect for the soil in order to harvest healthy grapes that revealed the terroir. Christiane, after having taught in France and the USA, wishes to offer the estate's wines abroad. Gradually, the wines are exported to Great Britain, USA, Canada, Japan, Northern Europe, Africa.
