Beaujolais: true craftsmanship

The Beaujolais Vineyard has 4 distinctive characteristics that set it apart from other vineyards:

• A grape variety that is unique and rare for red wines: Gamay Noir à Jus Blanc has found its true home in Beaujolais, in granitic and limestone-clay soils.

  The grapes are hand picked to keep the bunches whole up to vatting.

• The highest planting density in the world (9 to 10 000 vines/ha), requiring a lot of labour but reducing the yield per vine and thus producing really high quality grapes.

• the steepest vineyard in France: 50% of the vines are planted on slopes of over 20 %, giving exceptional sun coverage to the multitudinous plots of vines. Manual work is, of course the only way to do things on the slopes where no mechanisation is possible.

• A single vinification method: called ‘Beaujolais vinification’, which is unique in the world and allows the aromas and flavours or the grapes as well as the savour given by the terroir to come out to the full.