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
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