Fleurie Vieilles Vignes

Yann Bertrand

Type

Red Wine

Appellation

Fleurie

Variety

Gamay

The Fleurie Vieilles Vignes comes from vines that are over 60 years old. This cuvée is aged for longer in used barrels, then held back for an additional year before release. Like everything at the domaine, this wine is naturally vinified without any added yeast or SO2.

Viticulture

Vineyard name

Grand Pré

Soil type

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

Vines planted in60 years average

Vineyard size2 ha (5 acres)

PruningGobelet

Altitude200m to 450m

Vinification

Cold carbonic maceration with native yeast and no added SO2

Elevage6 months of élevage in cement and 3 months in barrel prior to bottling

Harvest typeHand Harvested

Fining/FilteringBottled unfiltered by gravity following the lunar calendar

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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...