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2020 Chiroubles, Lafarge-Vial, Beaujolais

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Gamay
Ready, but will improve
Product: 20201443844
2020 Chiroubles, Lafarge-Vial, Beaujolais

Description

There are two parcels here of decomposed pink granite soil in the lieu-dit Bel-Air. The vines are 45 years old, vinified as 30% whole bunches and aged in used 350-litre barrels. This is energetic, perfumed Beaujolais. A charming and pure red-berry fruit character gives some sweetness to the mid-palate, finished off with salty granite tannins.

Drink 2022 - 2027

Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Maturity Ready, but will improve
Grape List Gamay
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Lafarge Vial

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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Lafarge Vial

Domaine Lafarge Vial is a well-established winery in Beaujolais, founded by Frédéric Lafarge and his wife Chantal in the spring of 2014. Situated in the commune of Fleurie, the domaine owns several vineyard parcels in Fleurie and one small adjoining parcel in Chiroubles within the lieu-dit Bel-Air.
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