Chenas Chassignol

Pasta, Veal, Pork, Poultry

The soil is granitic, larded rock and quartz. The vines are located on one of the most beautiful slopes of Chenas at the edge of the rock.

During the harvest the cases of grapes are putted in a cold room of 7 to 10 degrees to keep the freshness of the grapes before fermentations start. The grapes are putted by gravity in concrete tank and nothing is added to the wines, even SO2. The juice during maceration and fermentation don’t get any pigeage or remontage. Maceration takes between 15 to 28 days depending of what they expect from the grapes. After this process, the grapes are pressed in an old vertical wood press from the 19th century, very slow press.

We are in love with wine and nature, we produce clean wines, without artifice and try to go as far as possible in our work to reveal our terroirs. Organic, biodynamic, pure wines, agroecology and farming are the pillars that have made up our estate. We have been working organic since the start (2008) and biodynamic today. The vineyard covers 12 ha spread over Chénas, Moulin à Vent and Beaujolais. The environment in which we live is very important and we have reintegrated animals into the heart of the estate (Cows, Horses, Poultry, Pigs, Hives, etc.). All our vines are surrounded by hedges and we have reintroduced trees in the middle, especially in Chassignol. Our 2 horses are used to plow the soil.