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

Soil type

Varied siliceous rocks

Vine age45 years old

Vineyard size0.5 hectares

Altitude500m

Vinification

The hand-harvested grapes go through a semi-carbonic maceration in whole bunches in concrete vats, the grapes are then pressed with a vertical press. The juice is fermented with indigenous yeasts

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

Harvest typeHand Harvested

More about
the producer

Private: 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 ...