Country: France Region: Beaujolais
Varietal: Gamay
Category: Red Wine Style: Dry
Producer: Roisin Curley
This is a very special wine from a very special person. We've know Róisín for many years and have been wowed by her focus and vision in running this amazing project, and by the quality of her wines.
This Fleurie is the first wine Róisín has made outside the traditional Burgundy zones, moving into Beaujolais. But it is a fitting transition as the quality of Gamay in Cru villages has increased in recent decades, attracting some of the best Burgundian winemakers to their vines. In this wine, Róisín makes use of traditional winemaking techniques and has taken grapes from a single selection of old vines in a vineyard called 'les Moriers' to make an engaging, fresh and complex wine, putting it at the top of the tree in this appellation.
The vines are organic and are grown on north-east facing slopes, increasing the thickness of the grape skins and potential complexity. The soils are granitic, which further increases flavour compounds. Grapes are all hand-picked, of course, and the fermentation is carried out with 100% whole bunch, pigeage-a-pied (foot pressing...) before ageing in old, inert wooden barrels for ten months. It was bottled in August of 2023, when it then rested until it came to us.
This is a stunning red full of freshness and vitality, red fruits and floral notes delivering complexity that is rarely found in wines from this village. But it's balanced in breadth and The vintage was broad and the wine is slightly darker than you may expect from Beaujolais, but that's because of the vineyard and the careful handling of fruit in the winery. This is Fleurie, but not as you know it.
Broadly speaking, Róisín gives her wines a very light fining and filtration in order to preserve the natural character of the grapes terroir as much as possible. Indeed, some of her wines are left completely unfiltered. For the winemaking itself, she uses concrete tanks or small
Country: Italy Region: Puglia
Varietal: Primitivo
Colour: Red Style: Dry
Producer: Elegia
Description:Bright acidity and drying tannins push through to tighten up the close. Persistent. Pairs with spiced wild boar morsels, excellent with roasts and braised meats, superb with lamb.
Tasting Note:Dark ruby red with ripe reflections. Spicy on the nose with aromas of red fruits, tobacco and coffee. Powerful and fruity on the taste with aromas of black cherries and berries.
Food Matches: Pasta / Risottos / Soft Cheese / Beef