Grapes: Gamay
Region: Fleurie, Beaujolais, France
Vintage: 2020
Viticulture: Organic
Soils: Rocky granite + sand
Winemaking: whole-cluster in concrete vats for 12 days, then pressed to 30hL foudres
Aging: 18 months
Fining or Filtering: None
Notes from the Importer: At the ripe old age of 56, Marc Delienne made an incredible leap into a new life.
He left his life in Paris working in IT & banking and moved himself to Beaujolais. In 2015, he purchased Château de l’Abbaye Saint Laurent d’Arpayé in the centre of Fleurie. Mentored by the likes of Alain Graillot and Eloi Dürrbach at Domaine Trévallon in Provence, he came to town with the fiery passion of a man many years his junior.
A conversion of his 40-80-year-old vines to organic farming was immediate. A vat room was built in short order. Gorgeous, elegant wines made with meticulous attention to detail emerged in what seemed like no time at all.
Now entering his sixth decade on this planet, Marc thinks of himself as a young winemaker. His wines have the edginess and energy that you would associate with the finest vanguard producers in the French wine community today.
