Fleurie

Clos de la Roilette
France
Beaujolais
2022

100% Gamay. From vines around 40 years old and up, on heavy clay soils with relatively little granite and quite a lot of the iron-like mineral manganese. The farming is sustainable or lutte raisonnée. All vineyard work is by hand; the soils are worked only superficially, at most twice per year, to protect the roots of the older vines. Vinification is traditional, semi-carbonic Beaujolais style. The whole clusters are harvested by hand and fermented spontaneously with native yeasts in open-top concrete tank. Maceration lasts around 14 days for this Fleurie, with a submerged cap rather than punchdowns. Sulfur use is quite minimal. The wine is aged in large, old oak foudres for about 9 months before bottling. 

 

94+ points
"The 2022 Clos de la Roilette “regular bottling” is truly exceptional in this vintage. The bouquet is deep, pure and sappy, wafting from the glass in a mix of sweet cassis, black plums, dark chocolate, gamebird, dark soil tones, violets, a touch of brown spices and plenty of upper register smokiness. On the palate the wine is deep, focused and full-bodied, with bottomless depth of sappy black fruit at the core, superb soil signature and grip, ripe tannins and a very long, complex and impeccably balanced finish. This has a lovely veneer of puppy fat right now that makes it easy to drink (despite a fair bit of tannin), but it really deserves at least a few years in the cellar to allow more complexity to emerge with bottle age. It si a great young vintage of Clos de la Roilette. 2027- 2065. "
John Gilman,
View from the Cellar
January 2024

SKU/Code: 
DB0010-22
Product Line: 
Wine
Red
Varietal: 
Gamay
Farming Type: 
Sustainable