Auvergne
Lave Grise - 2023 - Jean Maupertuis
Jean Mauperthuis
Second vintage for this rosé on notes of raspberry, flowers, hint of grapefruit... Generous, concentrated, with a profile that is crafted for food and wine pairings. Big crush.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
100% Gamay from 50-year-old vines grown organically, planted about thirty kilometers from the estate, near Riom. A very volcanic plot, on an ancient lava flow of the Puy de la Nugère, pozzolana soils. Manual harvesting, with yields that were large enough in 2023 to make wine from this parcel (during previous vintages the juice was blended with the rest of Pink Bulles). Natural vinification: direct pressing, fermentation and aging in stainless steel vats for 8 months. Bottled at the estate without fining or filtration, without added sulfites.
Jean Maupertuis
Jean Maupertuis is a modest, rather reserved vigneron, and yet he is indeed the leading natural winegrower in Auvergne! After pursuing a career as a computer scientist in the Rhone Valley, while spending all his evenings after work in vineyards, he’d finally decide to leave it all behind to make wine. So he headed to Mâcon for a training programme in winegrowing and production, during which he...
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