Type

Red Wine

Appellation

Beaujolais Villages

Variety

Gamay

Marchampt is a zesty and fruit-driven Gamay produced under the Beaujolais-Villages appellation. Baptiste is the first producer in Charentay to be certified organic, and his wines are produced using simple traditional equipment and minimal intervention. This small domaine recalls the best spirit of the Beaujolais – sincere, simple, and delicious wines produced and presented with no nonsense.

Viticulture

Vineyard name

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Soil type

Varied silicious rock

Vines planted inLate 1970s

Vineyard size0.5 hectares

PruningGoblet

Altitude500 m

Vinification

Semi-carbonic cold fermentation with native yeasts in concrete tanks. Grapes are refrigerated and left to macerate in concrete tanks. After press, the juice is cooled to 12-15ºC.

ElevageThe wine is aged in OVOïD® high-density polyethylene vats (oxygen transmission rate 13mg/L per year), and no sulfites are added during bottling.

Harvest typeHand Harvested

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Baptiste Bertrand

Founded in 2017

4.5 hectares

It says Baptiste Bertrand on the label, but everyone calls him Bart. Located in Beaujolais, Baptiste farms 4.5 hectares of vines on clay-limestone soils around Charentay, a small commune that makes up part of a swath of Beaujolais-Villages vineyards between Mont Brouilly to the south and Morgon to the north. Baptiste originally studied ecology, with a specialization in environmental management and cartography. After working for organizations and nonprofits for a decade around France, he found himself back home in Beaujolais, where he spent three years managing a local project related to local vineyards. When that project came to an end, a friend suggested that he takes over some vines from a retiring winemaker.

Baptiste is the first producer in Charentay to be certified ...