Cerf Volant rouge
Red Cerf Volant is a blend of Gamay and Pinot noir, vinified and aged at the Clos de Breuilly's winery. The grapes are grown by the Domaine de la Fontaine.
Saint-Pourçain AOP
Terroir
The vines are located on two plots of the Domaine de la Fontaine: Breux and Les Burliers, in conversion to organic farming since 2021.
Between 250m and 260m
Gentle slope, c. 10%
South, South East
Clay-limestone
Gamay c. 2010, Pinot noir c. 2000
Viticulture
Cordon-trained vines with trellising
Guyot-Poussard
Disbudding, green harvesting
Mechanical harvest with integrated sorting
Vinification and Ageing
3 weeks in stainless steel tank. Pump-over morning and evening with an R'Pulse pump. No punch-down.
5 months in stainless steel tank
Not filtered, not fined
Analysis Before Bottling
0.7 g/l
3.40
13 mg/l
28 mg/l
830 mg/l
Summary
50% Gamay, 50% Pinot noir
September 14, 2023
March 19, 2024
Diam 5 47mm
11 720 bottles
30 hl/ha
13% vol
Vinification and Ageing
3 weeks in concrete tank. Pump-over morning and evening with an R'Pulse pump. No punch-down.
4 months in stainless steel tank
Lightly filtered
Analysis Before Bottling
0.8 g/l
3.30
20 mg/l
50 mg/l
850 mg/l
Summary
50% Gamay, 50% Pinot noir
September 9, 2022
February 16, 2023
Diam 5 47mm
5 580 bottles
30 hl/ha
13% vol
Why Cerf Volant?
Some of the fun is lost in translation but whilst ‘cerf-volant’ is the word you would use for a kite, it also literally means a flying (volant) stag (cerf). Funnily enough, a flying stag is an emblem of our Bourbonnais region, which is why the stags on our labels are very eager to learn how to fly.
Creation: Alexandre Lagneau