Bonnet-Cotton Cote de Brouilly '100% Cotton' 2023 Beaujolais, France

Grapes: Gamay

Place: Beaujolais, France

Story: Pierre and his parents are the sole winemaking operation in a chai that has housed winemakers since the 18th century. While Pierre has only been making wine at the family domain since 2014, his style and personality are already clearly defined in each wine.  

Located right next to the Bonnet-Cotton winery in Odénas, Cotton’s parcel of Côte de Brouilly is on a unique terroir of ‘corne verte,’ a particular soil blend of pink granite and diorite which Pierre claims is found nowhere else in the Beaujolais. The Côte de Brouilly ‘100% Cotton’ was the first cuvée Pierre made, and it remains the emblematic wine of the domaine: a structured, powerful Gamay that retains the freshness and easy-drinking quality of the best Beaujolais. Full carbonic maceration of whole clusters in cement tank, then aged in foudre for eight months. unfined, unfiltered, no sulfites added.