Domaine Les Roches Bleues ‘La Croquante’ Brouilly Rouge 2023

$29.00

Location: France, Beaujolais, Brouilly

Winemaker: Jonathan & Chloë Buisson

Grapes: Gamay

Soil: Pink Granite

Winemaking: Organic farming. Hand harvest. Whole bunches are handpicked in small crates and selected in the vineyard. Eight days of whole-cluster, semi-carbonic maceration is followed by a very gentle and slow pressing using the château’s old, wooden vertical press. The must is transferred into temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, where fermentation continues with native yeasts. After racking, the wine spends eight months in 50-year-old foudres before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. A very small amount of sulfur is used at bottling.

‘La Croquante’ is the entry point into Jonathan’s range. This cuvée is crunchy and fruity, with a soft, glou glou style that is completely charming. La Croquante is an assemblage of vines planted on the pink granite soils of Brouilly. Fresh, racy, and fun.

From the Importer De Maison Selections: One couldn’t ask for a better location than the position enjoyed by Jonathan Buisson and his wife Chloë… and their Domaine Les Roches Bleues on the slopes of the majestic Mont Brouilly, in southern Beaujolais. The domain began in 1967 when Chloë’s grandparents, Annie and Louis Bassy, acquired a few hectares of vines with the strong desire to start their own wine domain. It was a daring idea at a time when very few growers owned their own vines and most small producers primarily sold to the large negociants, who reigned supreme. The family was quality-minded from the beginning, and the domain has seen lots of success in the decades since its founding. A fresh start came In 2017, when the young and charismatic third generation, Jonathan and Chloë, took over the estate, beginning the transformation of the domain around the production of organic and natural wines according to the principles of agroecology, with the incorporation of agroforestry techniques at the estate. The focus of the domaine is producing the purest, most delicious expression of terroirs as possible. Domaine Les Roches Bleues enjoys exceptional growing conditions, with the famous pierre bleue (diorite, a hard, blue-hued igneous rock typical of Côte de Brouilly) giving delicious wines with incredible energy, structure, and freshness.

Location: France, Beaujolais, Brouilly

Winemaker: Jonathan & Chloë Buisson

Grapes: Gamay

Soil: Pink Granite

Winemaking: Organic farming. Hand harvest. Whole bunches are handpicked in small crates and selected in the vineyard. Eight days of whole-cluster, semi-carbonic maceration is followed by a very gentle and slow pressing using the château’s old, wooden vertical press. The must is transferred into temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, where fermentation continues with native yeasts. After racking, the wine spends eight months in 50-year-old foudres before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. A very small amount of sulfur is used at bottling.

‘La Croquante’ is the entry point into Jonathan’s range. This cuvée is crunchy and fruity, with a soft, glou glou style that is completely charming. La Croquante is an assemblage of vines planted on the pink granite soils of Brouilly. Fresh, racy, and fun.

From the Importer De Maison Selections: One couldn’t ask for a better location than the position enjoyed by Jonathan Buisson and his wife Chloë… and their Domaine Les Roches Bleues on the slopes of the majestic Mont Brouilly, in southern Beaujolais. The domain began in 1967 when Chloë’s grandparents, Annie and Louis Bassy, acquired a few hectares of vines with the strong desire to start their own wine domain. It was a daring idea at a time when very few growers owned their own vines and most small producers primarily sold to the large negociants, who reigned supreme. The family was quality-minded from the beginning, and the domain has seen lots of success in the decades since its founding. A fresh start came In 2017, when the young and charismatic third generation, Jonathan and Chloë, took over the estate, beginning the transformation of the domain around the production of organic and natural wines according to the principles of agroecology, with the incorporation of agroforestry techniques at the estate. The focus of the domaine is producing the purest, most delicious expression of terroirs as possible. Domaine Les Roches Bleues enjoys exceptional growing conditions, with the famous pierre bleue (diorite, a hard, blue-hued igneous rock typical of Côte de Brouilly) giving delicious wines with incredible energy, structure, and freshness.