Mon Petit Chéri

Yann Bertrand

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Type

Red Wine

Appellation

Fleurie

Variety

Gamay

This wine hails from a single parcel called Chaffangeons, which is composed of deep granite soil rich in silt. Yann has farmed these vines biodynamically since 2015, and alternates soil tillage and controlled natural grassing.

Viticulture

Vineyard name

Chaffangeons

Soil type

Granitic

Vine ageOver 40 years old

Vineyard size0.7 hectares

PruningGobelet

Vinification

The grapes are exclusively hand harvested in small 300kg skips, with rigorous parcel sorting. Carbonic maceration at cold temperatures (around 10- 12°C during vatting) for 10 days, avoiding any intervention. No added sulfur or yeast

ElevageThe wine ages 100% in vats for 8 months. Racking and bottling by the domaine, without filtration and according to the cycle of the moon

Harvest typeHand Harvested

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...