100% Gamay. Fruit Roilette's oldest vines go into their "Cuvée Tardive"--and a small portion of that wine is reserved for the smallest of all Roilette production, La Griffe du Marquis. The only difference is aging in barrique instead of foudre and for longer. As for all of the Coudert family wines, 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 18 days, with a submerged cap rather than punchdowns. The wine is aged in barrique (2 to 12 years old) for a full year, so the vintage is always one behind that of all other Roilette wines. It is bottled without fining or filtration. Sulfur use is quite minimal. Alain Coudert makes a point of noting that his parents were not aristocracy, but their village nicknames were "Le Marquis et La Marquise", for which this serious wine was playfully named.