2022 Les Cardinaux Cote de Brouilly, Beaujolais, France
Regular price $27.00
Unit price per
100% Gamay
A project started in 2020, this is the second vintage of longtime friends, Laure, Tannegui and Thibault. A labor of love, this second vintage had some pitfalls, with sun damage costing them 20% of their crop, but they are learning as they go and the second vintage is already shoulders ahead of the first. With enviable terroir, Les Cardinaux’s 2.4 hectares of Gamay vines rest on the slope of Mount Brouilly in volcanic soils made up of various cooled magma like diorite and plutonic rock. Hand harvested, the grapes are pressed and then the juice is gravity fed to concrete vats for a ten day fermentation. Rested in large foudres and concrete. Only 550 cases made. The nose is rich berry cobbler, tasting like fruit punch, soft and silky with a bright mineral finish. Not too muscled.