Bonnet Cotton Beaujolais

Domaine Bonnet-Cotton

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Type

Red Wine

Appellation

Beaujolais

Variety

Gamay

All of the red wines at Cotton are vinified with native yeasts and without SO2 in concrete tanks, then age underground in century-old foudres that were originally built for holding beer, then were repurposed in the 1950s and 1960s.

Viticulture
Soil type

Clay-limestone and colluvial soils

Vine ageOld vines
PruningGobelet
Vinification

After a manual harvest the grapes go for a carbonic maceration vinification in whole bunches, spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts

ElevageAged in foudres and barrels for 8 months, unfiltered, unfined and no SO2 added.
Harvest typeHand Harvested