Juliénas (wine region)

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Juliénas, France: The Cooperative's chateau and winery as seen from the market square
Wall relief in Juliénas: Les quatre Saisons de la Vigne . A gift from the artist Serge Baemler from 1999
Pot Lyonnais , the typical serving bottle with the thick glass base (for cooling) in Beaujolais
Overview map of the Beaujolais wine-growing region including the ten crus

The French wine-growing region Juliénas is one of the ten crus des Beaujolais . The area received on March 11, 1938 the status of an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC for short). The 609 hectares of vineyards are in the communal areas of Emeringes , Juliénas and Jullié in the Rhône department and Pruzilly in the Saône-et-Loire department .

This is where red wines are made from the Gamay grape variety , which are quite strong. The wines are made with the traditional carbon dioxide maceration. This method of winemaking is slow and unsuitable for making Beaujolais Nouveau, but it does make significantly better wines.

The wines should be drunk three to five years after harvest. A good drinking temperature is 14 ° C.

The vineyards lie in the east on deep, loamy soil of volcanic origin and in the west on granite soil .

The region's cooperative , which develops and markets 30 percent of the wines, has set up a sales room in the former chapel of the Château du Bois de la Salle , where a wide variety of regional wines can be tasted and bought.

The other Beaujolais cru wines are Brouilly , Chénas , Chiroubles , Côte de Brouilly , Fleurie , Moulin à Vent , Morgon , Régnié and Saint-Amour .

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