Clos Bateau 'Croix Pennet' Beaujolais-Lantignie 2022

Grower: Clos Bateau
Region: Lantignie, Beaujolais, France
Grape:  Gamay
Viticulture: Practicing Organic
Category: Red
Size: 750ml

"Our -Sylvie & Thierry- adventure started in 2019 when we moved to our domaine in Lantignié, Beaujolais after working in restaurants in Amsterdam. It's a small, 5,5Ha, nature-friendly domaine. With almost all the vineyards and land (total 8ha) around our domain we are creating a great ecosystem here. To increase biodiversity in our vineyards we planted over 100 fruit & nut trees in 2019. 

We want to work with nature, not against. To stay in this mindset, in the vineyard we work with a homeopathic touch, where we collect plants and herbs around the estate to make plant based tea infusions that will help the vines to become stronger and healthier. We also work by the moon, this results in our choices; when to bottle/press how long we will do the maceration and so on. On a meadow at the end of our vineyards we have our sheep (who are a part of our team and going to help us eat the herbs in the vineyard during wintertime and give the soil food in return). "

100% Gamay from the pure pink granite soils of Croix Pen(n)et, a south-facing parcel on the border of Lantignié/Regnié. Grapes are hand-harvested, 11-day semi-carbonic maceration. Spontaneous fermentation in a combination of neutral burgundy barrel & stainess steel (60/40 approximately, respectively). Bottled unfined, unfiltered, no additional SO2.