2024 Clos De La Roilette, Fleurie, Beaujolais, France Barmes Buecher 6-hectare Chardonnay plot within Mugnier’s

6-hectare Chardonnay plot within Mugnier’s walled monopole—recreated by over-grafting Pinot vines to Chardonnay when the Clos returned to the domaine—the 2022 marries the site’s limestone-rich soils to a low-intervention

orange wine thats first destemmed

The wine exhibits a beautiful light pink shade with bright citrus notes

Yields: 40 hl/ha

2024 Clos De La Roilette, Fleurie, Beaujolais, France Barmes Buecher 6-hectare Chardonnay plot within Mugnier’s100% 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 raisonne. 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