Domaine de la Chapelle des Bois Fleurie Grand Pre 2023 (750ml)

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Country	France
Region	Beaujolais
Subregion	Fleurie
Varietal	Gamay
Vintage	2023
Sku	36741
Size	750ml

 

.Bright youthful purple. Vibrant red-berried and black-cherried fruit. Very traditional example, showing a lively bite and enough fruit tannins to accompany food well.

From parcels heavily infused with granite, the Fleurie “Grand Pré” is the classic, workhorse wine of this estate. From vines with an average age of forty years, this Fleurie undergoes a cuvaison between 10 and 15 days, the length of which depends on the underlying structure of the grapes from each specific vintage.

Located in the heart of the Fleurie cru, Domaine de la Chapelle des Bois comprises nine hectares of vines, primarily in Fleurie, but augmented by smaller holdings in Chiroubles and Morgon. We began our work with this charming traditional domaine in the early 2000s with Chantal and Eric Coudert-Appert, the seventh generation to work the land and produce wine here. In the vineyards, Chantal and Eric followed the principles of lutte raisonnée, treating only when absolutely necessary in order to rescue a crop, and their tried-and-true no-fuss cellar methods—spontaneous fermentation, traditional semi-carbonic maceration in cement vats, and aging in large 50-year-old wooden casks—produced Beaujolais of vivid fruit, terrific freshness, and structure enough to develop well in bottle. Chantal and Eric retired after the 2017 vintage, and their successor Frederic Montangeron—a local with years of experience at his own family’s winery—continues in the very same vein as Chantal and Eric, producing honest Beaujolais using skilled farming and a less-is-more approach to vinification and aging.