Type

Red Wine

Appellation

Fleurie

Variety

Gamay

Named after Yann Bertrand's first child, the Cuvée Emile is produced only in exceptional years from the oldest vines at the domaine. Vinification and elevage is the same as with the cuvée Vieilles Vignes, and the rare Cuvée Emile is also held back at least an additional year before release (sometimes longer).

Viticulture

Vineyard name

Grand Pré

Soil type

Sandy granite. Yann describes this terroir as being particularly fragile, acidic, and mostly sand based.

Vine age80-100 years old

Vineyard size0.8 hectares

PruningGobelet

ExpositionEast

Altitude200m to 450m

Vinification

Cold carbonic maceration for 10 days.

ElevageElevage 50% in Demi muids of 600L, and 50% in 225L. All vessels coming from Savoie that were used for Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Douce Noire for 9 months.

Harvest typeHand Harvested

Fining/FilteringBottled unfiltered by gravity following the lunar calendar

More about
the producer

Yann Bertrand

Founded in 2012

9 hectares

Growing up in Fleurie, Yann Bertrand never thought he would become a winemaker. He briefly enrolled in commerce at a local university, then travelled around the French Alps for a few years. When applying for local jobs, he noted that he was the son of a vigneron and soon found himself working at wine bars and wine shops, surrounded by passionate wine geeks and artisan winemakers who often came to deliver wine themselves. Tasting wines in a new way, he began to ask himself some questions, and eventually decided that the metier of a winemaker would be interesting to him if he pursued it with the same passion as the role models he encountered.

Returning to the Beaujolais, Yann began to learn from the incredible circle of producers that he never knew before, including well-k...