Lafarge Vial Cote de Brouilly 2021 Big Bottle northwest of Montpellier

northwest of Montpellier

It is the most delicate of his Marsannay lieux-dits and very much a child of its terroir and position

This Vieilles Vignes bottling comes from old vines in Santenay

Ambient yeast fermentation in open wood vats with punch-downs

Lafarge Vial Cote de Brouilly 2021 Big Bottle northwest of MontpellierMont Brouilly's blue stone is the calling card of Cte de Brouilly, and Lafarge Vial's parcel, the lieu dit Brulhi, hangs southeast facing on its steep slopes: two thirds of a hectare of Gamay planted in the late 1960s in granite threaded with blue rock, plowed by horse because tractors cannot hold the grade. The domaine is the Beaujolais venture of Frdric and Chantal Lafarge of Volnay, established in 2014 and farmed biodynamically from the outset, now