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Les Rocs

Clos de Breuilly's Les Rocs is a single varietal 100% Gamay wine.

Vin de France
100% Gamay
Red

Terroir

The grapes come exclusively from a plot called Les Rocs, where granite and clay-limestone meet, giving the wine its identity.

Between 310m and 340m
Moderate slope, c. 15%
South-West
55% sand, 28% silt, 17% clay on a subsoil of altered granitic and metamorphic rocks (gneiss)
1996
Etiquette les Rocs

Viticulture

Clos de Breuilly's vines are cultivated organically (farming is certified organic by FR-Bio-10 Agriculture France)

Cordon-trained vines with trellising
Guyot-Poussard
Disbudding, green harvesting
Harvest by hand with sorting at the vine

Vinification and Ageing

15 days in stainless steel tank, 30% whole bunch. Pump-over morning and evening with an R'Pulse pump. No punch-down.
10 months in stainless steel tank
Lightly filtered

Analysis Before Bottling

1.4 g/l
3.55
15 mg/l
20 mg/l
860 mg/l

Summary

September 20, 2023
July 24, 2024
Natural cork Trescases 49/24
2 520 bottles
30 hl/ha
14% vol

Vinification and Ageing

15 days in stainless steel tank, 30% whole bunch. Pump-over morning and evening with an R'Pulse pump. No punch-down.
10 months in stainless steel tank
Lightly filtered

Analysis Before Bottling

<0.2 g/l (LQ)
3.35
25 mg/l
50 mg/l
1000 mg/l

Summary

September 14, 2022
August 4, 2023
Natural cork Trescases 49/24
2 200 bottles
20 hl/ha
13% vol

Vinification and Ageing

15 days in stainless steel tank, 30% whole bunch. Pump-over morning and evening with an R'Pulse pump. No punch-down.
10 months in oak barrels from Atelier Centre France (Tronçais forest)
Lightly filtered

Analysis Before Bottling

<2 g/l
3.41
25 mg/l
60 mg/l
850 mg/l

Summary

October 1, 2021
July 22, 2022
Natural cork Francisco Sagrera 49/24
1 140 bottles
13 hl/ha
13.5% vol

Vinification and Ageing

15 days in stainless steel tank, 30% whole bunches. Pump-over morning and evening with an R'Pulse pump. No punch-down.
9 months in stainless steel tank
No fined, not filtered

Analysis Before Bottling

0.3 g/l
3.97
<10 mg/l (LQ)
<10 mg/l (LQ)
1100 mg/l

Summary

September 19, 2022
September 3, 2021
Natural cork Francisco Sagrera 54/25
2 000 bottles
23 hl/ha
18% vol