La Baleine Ivre 2020
La Baleine Ivre 2020
Gamay
Beaujolais
Medium Bodied
Fresh, juicy and easeful Gamay as we like it best. A short, whole-bunch maceration of eight days, raised in enamel vats for 12 months. Cyrille is the master of holding his wines in a pose that flashes between wild and elegant.
Sulphur: None added
Cuvée: La Baleine Ivre
Vintage: 2018
Producer: Cyrille Vuillod
Region: France, Vaux en Beaujolais, La Chaumière
Style + Colour: Still, Red
Grapes/Blend: Gamay
ABV: 13%
Sulfur: none added
Originating from the Hautes-Alpes, Cyrille had various careers before finding winemaking as a grape harvester, which is how he landed in Beaujolais. A warm character with a cheeky smile, his wines all show a real softness with a serious drinkability. Vinification is mostly full carbonic maceration with little, if any, use of oak and sulphur. Initially working under Jean-Claude Lapalu, he produced his first vintage in 2012. He has 5 hectares of old and young Gamay on the edge of Brouilly, vines planted on a mix of pink granite, sand, clay and silex.