Yann Bertrand Fleurie ‘Mon Petit Cheri’ 2023 Beaujolais, France

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Gamay

Beaujolais, France

Yann Bertrand is the son of a vigneron in the Beaujolais town of Fleurie, but wasnt interested in winemaking until he became immersed in the natural wine scene of the French Alps. Eventually, he found himself learning how to make wine from Beajolais legends like Jean Foillard and Yvonn Metras. Some of his wines are made with purchased fruit, but Yann holds fast to organic and biodynamic winemaking principles, and is highly selective with these grapes (even picks them himself). The wines are fermented in concrete, carbonic, and whole cluster. No sulfur is used at any point in the winemaking process.

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. The grapes are exclusively hand harvested in small 300kg skips, with rigorous parcel sorting. Carbonic maceration at cold temperatures (around 10- 12C during vatting) for 10 days, avoiding any intervention. No added sulfur or yeast. The wine ages 100% in vats for 8 months. Racking and bottling by the domaine, without filtration and according to the cycle of the moon.

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