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Fleurie Vielles Vignes Lieu Dit "Champagne" 2022 | Famille Dutraive

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The Famille Dutraive Fleurie Lieu-Dit “Champagne” 2022 is a high-quality Gamay from a prized plot within the Fleurie appellation in Beaujolais. Known as the "Champagne" vineyard, this 1.5-hectare parcel sits on southeast-facing granite-rich slopes, ideal for cultivating old vines up to 70 years old. This Gamay offers remarkable complexity, featuring a bright profile of red berries, floral tones, and underlying earthy minerality.

Ophelie and Lucas, known for their minimalist, terroir-focused practices, ferment the whole clusters in concrete and age the wine in oak for eight months, unfiltered and with minimal sulfites. It's a vibrant, pure Fleurie with aging potential and is great for pairing with charcuterie and poultry

Unfiltered, unfined, tiny sulphites.


About the Domaine:

This estate is one of the oldest in Fleurie and was bought in 1969 by Jean DUTRAIVE. He took over 9 hectares of Fleurie on the Grand'Cour, Chapelle des Bois and Champagne's terroirs. He also kept 1 hectare 60 of Brouilly from the family property.
Jean Dutraive, was joined by his son Jean-Louis in 1977. He succeeded him definitively in 1989. Now Jean Louis's kids, Ophelie and Lucas are taking over the domaine .

The grapes picked up manually are put in whole vats (neither de-stemming nor crushing) put at low temperature and saturated with carbon dioxide (without sulphite addition).

Fermentation takes place naturally without intervention (except in the event of a problem) until pressing. No oenological product is used, the natural yeasts of the so-called indigenous grapes are responsible for characterizing our wines. These are then put in the cellar by gravity to begin their more or less long aging depending on the cuvées.

The "Famille Dutraive" project:

Following the hailstorms suffered on the Grand'Cour estate in 2016 and 2017, Jean-Louis and his children, Lucas, Justin and Ophélie, began to buy grapes which they vinified at the estate. The grapes, selected by them, come from plots cultivated in the spirit of organic farming, certified or not. The wines are produced according to the same philosophy as that of the estate, favoring parcel vinification, without oenological input. The first cuvées produced in 2016, Cap Ô Sud, were made from Cinsault and Carignan grape varieties from Corbières and Minervois respectively. Today the wines are mainly produced from Gamay du Beaujolais on the Chénas, Chiroubles, Fleurie and Saint-Amour crus.

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