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2018 Côte de Brouilly, Les Sept Vignes, Château Thivin, Beaujolais

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Gamay
Ready, but will keep
Product: 20188007052
2018 Côte de Brouilly, Les Sept Vignes, Château Thivin, Beaujolais

Description

This complex, dramatic wine is a blend of fruit from seven separate parcels around the Côte de Brouilly. It is vinified in concrete, then aged for seven months in large oak vats (some over a century old). There are hints of black pepper and liquorice on the nose, while the palate is characterised by grippy tannins, cool red fruit flavours and fresh acidity, all of which speak of the vertiginous slopes; thin, sandy soils and blue granite emblematic of the appellation.

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2018
Alcohol % 13.5
Maturity Ready, but will keep
Grape List Gamay
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Château Thivin

About this wine

Gamay

A French variety planted predominately in Beaujolais where it is the grape behind everything from light and often acidic Beaujolais Nouveau through to the more serious and well-structured wines from the 10 cru villages. It takes its name from a hamlet just outside Chassagne-Montrachet and was at one stage widely planted on the Côte d`Or. However it was gradually phased out due to its poor yield and supposed poor quality of its wines.
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Chateau Thivin

Château Thivin, located in the Côte de Brouilly, is renowned for its distinctive volcanic soils and early-ripening fruit. This small appellation, one of the ten Beaujolais Crus, offers a unique terroir expertly showcased through the estate's various single-vineyard cuvées. Each of the estate's ten plots, spread around the steep hill of Côte de Brouilly, brings its own character, combining to create fresh, structured, and concentrated wines, making them appealing both in youth and with age.
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