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La Croquante Brouilly

Varietal
Gamay

Notes
VINEYARD: An assemblage of vines planted on the pink granite soils of Brouilly.

VINIFICATION: Whole bunches are handpicked in small crates and selected in the vineyard. A week-long 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 eight months in 50-year-old foudres before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. A very small amount of sulfur is used at bottling.