Cote de Brouilly
The French wine-growing region Côte de Brouilly is one of the ten Cru des Beaujolais . The area received on October 19, 1936 the status of an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC for short). The 325 hectares of vineyards are located in the communal areas of Odenas , Saint-Lager , Cercié and Quincié-en-Beaujolais in the Rhône department . The area is completely enclosed by the Beaujolais-Cru Brouilly .
This is where red wines are made from the Gamay grape variety , which are more durable than most of the Beaujolais wines. The wines are made with the traditional carbonic acid maceration. This method of winemaking is slow and unsuitable for making Beaujolais Nouveau, but it does make significantly better wines.
After a longer storage of four to five years, the wine is ready to drink, but can also be stored for ten years under optimal conditions.
The vineyards are located on the slopes of the 484 meter high Mont Brouilly and completely surround it. Every Saturday on the last weekend in August, the residents of the growing area make a pilgrimage to a chapel on the top of the hill and offer bread , wine and salt .
The soil structure of the zone ranges from granite to very hard blue-green slate , here called cornes-vertes (green croissants) or diorites. A bottle of Côte de Brouilly usually costs five to eight euros.
The other Beaujolais cru wines are Chénas , Chiroubles , Fleurie , Juliénas , Moulin à Vent , Morgon , Régnié and Saint-Amour .
literature
- Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . 3. Edition. Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .
- Pierre Galet : Cépages et Vignobles de France . 1st edition. Lavoisier Publishing House, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-7430-0585-8 .
- Benoît France (ed.): Grand Atlas des Vignobles de France . 1st edition. Solar publishing house, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-263-03242-8 .