Jean-Paul Brun Domaine des Terres Dorees - Bourgogne Pinot Noir 2022 (750ml)

  

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Producer	Jean-Paul Brun Domaine des Terres Dorees
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Varietal	Pinot Noir
Vintage	2022
Sku	210000001773
Size	750ml

Jean-Paul Brun Domaine des Terres Dorees Bourgogne Pinot Noir 2022

Jean-Paul Brun started Terres Dorées in 1979 with a mere 4 hectares of vines in Charnay in the southern Beaujolais, an area which is slightly warmer and more limestone-driven versus the more renowned granite-rich cru villages in the northern Beaujolais. Today, the Charnay estate is around 30 acres, but with an additional 15 hectares farmed in the crus. The farming in Charnay is organic and includes working of the soils; the cru parcels are farmed sustainably and the soils are not worked. Harvest is by hand and of well-ripened but not over-ripened fruit, so alcohol levels are generally modest. Annual Terres Dorées production is around 350,000 bottles, 85-90% of it from estate fruit with the rest of it sourced. From the beginning, Jean-Paul carved a different path for himself in Beaujolais. Not only does he not chaptalize (common practice here), he has also always eschewed the relatively modern technique of carbonic maceration, in favor of traditional Burgundian vinification. His feeling was and remains that the character of Gamay and its varied terroirs is obscured by whole-cluster fermentation, as well as by the use of commercial yeasts and copious sulfur. He has never strayed from that philosophy, continuing to carefully sort and destem his grapes; add no yeast; add no sulfur (until a touch at bottling); allow for several weeks’ maceration; do regular pigeage or punchdowns; and age in a combination of concrete and old oak, varying with vintage and wine. Jean-Paul is not an adherent or advocate of “natural wine” per se, yet is among the most natural of Beaujolais vignerons, uninterested in trend or fashion but deeply committed to purity of expression of fruit and site. The individuality of those expressions--the fact that each is a different wine from all of the others--is intentionally emphasized by his choice to label every one of his many bottlings with a completely different label.

Winemaker Notes: Jean-Paul Brun's estate is in the rolling hills of Charnay in the southern Beaujolais, where the main grape of the area and his property too is of course Gamay. But the clay-limestone soils here are friendly to other varieties, particularly Pinot Noir (as well as Chardonnay and Roussanne, both of which he grows here); Jean-Paul began planting Pinot in 1991 and now has a total of 5 hectares. The farming is organic, the harvest by hand and the sorting of the bunches meticulous. The vinification is traditional Burgundian: the grapes are destemmed and fermented with native yeasts and without sulfur in concrete vats. Maceration lasts around 3 weeks. The wine is aged in concrete--with an occasional touch of large old oak vat--and bottled with a light, non-sterile filtration and minimal sulfur. The Pinot Noir is classified simply as Bourgogne AC.