Description

Starting with the 2015 vintage, Anne-Sophie has decided to release a different side of her Fleurie. Up until then, all of her Fleuries were 100% destemmed and fermented in a Burgundian-style. In stark contrast to her usual style, she is making Les Cocottes with 100% whole cluster and using carbonic maceration. It is released the Spring after the vintage and is intended to be fruit driven and drunk early & often.

The label was drawn by Anne-Sophie herself. (She’s really into art.)

Anne-Sophie Dubois is part of a young generation of vignerons redefining the identity of Beaujolais. Born and raised in Champagne, she caught the wine bug early and spent her formative years learning the ropes in Burgundy. (Far from the usual story of winemakers in Beaujolais.)

Dubois makes some of the most soulful, Burgundy-like versions of Beaujolais that Ive encountered…a Fleurie with a bit of fealty to the Cote dOr.

Jon Bonne, Punchdrink.com

The economics of vineyard ownership in France have made many regions unapproachable for a young vigneron without a considerable amount of wealth. Beaujolais is one of the few where that is not yet the case. Anne-Sophie fell in love with Gamay and decided that Fleurie was where she wanted to call home. Her domaine is composed of eight hectares in the heart of Fleurie that are now organically farmed. Most of her plots are already of considerable age, her oldest are 60+ years old.

If Fleurie has provided Anne-Sophie a canvas of old vines and granitic soils, she brings to the table a strong commitment to working the soil, staying out of the way in the winery, and a style that favors a Burgundian approach to vinification.

Viticulture

Certified organic since 2018. The work in the vineyard is rigorous. During the spring and summer, Anne-Sophie has up to seven people in the vineyard for debudding and trellising. This is important as its essential that the grapes are in an airy climate to reduce the need for any outside treatments. In the fall, she fertilizes the soil with compost and keeps a vegetable cover that brings life to the soil. The estate located in lieux dit, Les Labourons forms a cirque similar to an amphitheater, composed of 18 plots. Alone, its an ecosystem, practices respectful of the living and limiting external pollution.

Terroir

Anne-Sophie makes three AOC Fleurie wines that all come from her plots in lieux dit, Les Labourons at an altitude of 380 meters with sandy shallow soils over pink granitic bedrock.

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