Yann Bertrand Fleurie 'Alice 6/10' 2022 Beaujolais, France

Gamay

Beaujolais, France

Yann Bertrand is the son of a vigneron in the Beaujolais town of Fleurie, but wasn’t interested in winemaking until he became immersed in the natural wine scene of the French Alps. Eventually, he found himself learning how to make wine from Beajolais legends like Jean Foillard and Yvonn Metras. Some of his wines are made with purchased fruit, but Yann holds fast to organic and biodynamic winemaking principles, and is highly selective with these grapes (even picks them himself). The wines are fermented in concrete, carbonic, and whole cluster. No sulfur is used at any point in the winemaking process. 

Certified organic and biodynamic. This new entry in the Bertrand canon represents a celebration of ten years of making wine, six years of enduring consecutive hailstorms, and a tribute to Yann’s wife, Alice. From the sandy granite soils which give Coup de Folie and Coup de Foudre. A selection of older and younger vines. It's a semi-carbonic maceration blended with 40% of direct press and aged entirely in old barrels that previously contained Gamay, Pinot Noir, and Mondeuse.

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