Beaujolais
Petite Fleur - 2020 - Alexandra de Vazeilles
Château des Bachelards
A beautifully fresh cuvée, “both a bouquet of flowers and a basket of fresh fruit”, as Comtesse de Vazeilles puts it. Palate: soft, velvety attack, the Serine adds volume and body, long, pure finish of jammy black fruits.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Biodynamic wine
- Appellation
- Comtés Rhodaniens IGP
- Degree of alcohol
- 14 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
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A blended cuvée of of Gamay and Petite Sérine from biodynamically-grown vines planted on plots classified in the Beaujolais Villages appellation, right next to Fleurie, on silty sand soils over a pink granitic bedrock. Harvesting was done by hand, the grapes are moved by gravity, natural vinification, but not traditional from the Beaujolais region, since it begins with a total destemming. 20 days of maceration, gentle pressing, 16 months of aging in concrete vats. Bottled without fining or filtration, low sulfur.
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Alexandra de Vazeilles
Alexandra de Vazeilles is the director of Château des Bachelards, a lively winemaker from the Beaujolais scenery. After spending 15 years of her life in the United-States, and obtaining a degree in viticulture and oenology, she went off to learn from the very best: Château Latour, Domaine de Montille, Domaine Roulot. When she acquired the Château des Bachelards in 2014, she broke with the...
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