2023 Jean-Paul Brun Terres Dorees Beaujolais Blanc, France LC 2025 August true carbonic maceration: whole Zinfandel

true carbonic maceration: whole Zinfandel clusters were sealed in a fermentor from which all oxygen had been expelled by replacement with CO2

Terra Forte means rare

while the Cabernet Franc is planted in gravel

where they ferment spontaneously with indigenous yeasts and no sulfur

a west- and south-facing site

2023 Jean-Paul Brun Terres Dorees Beaujolais Blanc, France LC 2025 August true carbonic maceration: whole Zinfandel100% Chardonnay. On his home estate in hilly Charnay in the southern Beaujolais, Jean Paul Brun started planting Chardonnay in 1983 on the sandy clay limestone soils. The farming is organic and harvest is by hand. The bunches are destemmed and fermented with native yeasts and without sulfur in concrete vats. Malolactic fermentation occurs naturally and the lees are stirred periodically. The wine is aged in steel and concrete and bottled in the spring