Fleurie Poncié

Domaine Bonnet-Cotton

Fleurie
Type

Red Wine

Appellation

Fleurie AOP

Variety

Gamay

Fruit for Cotton's Fleurie Poncié comes from a beautiful old Gamay vineyard facing south towards the village of Fleurie. The grapes are vinified exactly the same as Cotton’s other wines, which showcases the difference between his native terroir of Brouilly and the softer (dare we say refined?) wines from Fleurie. 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
Vineyard name

Poncié

Soil type

Pink granite soil

Vine age50 years old
Vinification

Carbonic maceration vinification in whole bunches, spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts

ElevageAged in foudres 9 months, unfiltered, unfined and no SO2 added
Harvest typeHand Harvested