Welcome to another Wine-Searcher tasting, today our Wine Director, Master of Wine, David Allen tastes a Cru Beaujolais from an historic estate in the most southerly Cru of Beaujolais. The wine in question is Chateau de Pierreux’s Brouilly Grande Reserve 2021.
N.B. My apologies to anyone who watched the version of this that was origuinally posted, somehow the edits that had been applied didn’t take – bless you if you watched it all the way through – I hope the re-edited version will make a bit more sense!
Chateau de Pierreux was built in the 13th century as a fortified manor house, two towers from the original building are incorporated into the current house which dates from the nineteenth century. Vaulted cellars were built in the seventeenth century. Today the estate belongs to the Boisset family.
The estate lies to the south of Mont Brouilly and faces back towards the Mont. The Chateau is surrounded by its 110 hectares of vineyard. The soils here are among the best in the Cru, comprising shallow, friable, fractured pink granite soils with silica and volcanic blue porphyry.
The vines are planted to a density of 10,000 vines per hectare and are head trained using gobelet training. The average age of the vines is 85 years all ensuring yields are kept as low as 25 hl/ha. The vines are tended according to the lutte raisonnee (rational struggle) where chemicals are only applied when needed and systems of monitoring exist to test when applications might be required.
The estate makes a Beaujolais Village, a Brouilly, the Reserve du Chateau, the Grand Reserve and miniscule quantities of their Lieu-dit-Pierreux, a wine made from their two finest plots.
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