- SIZE:
- 75cl
This plot is about a hectare in size, planted back in 1980. This reduces yield and intensifies the fruit. Fermentation is in concrete for this wine before being aged in old oak. Another stunning value wine from Amélie.
Domaine Berthaut-Gerbet are a producer that is a firm favourite at The Sourcing Table- we need no encouragement to work with Amélie’s wines! Hers is the sort of wine we don't get to offer all the time- there just isn't enough to go round- so when you see it, take it!
Amélie is farming mostly in Fixin with a real focus on red wines. She has an incredible ability to read the vintage, read her fruit, and understand how to tell its story.
I have never tasted Fixin like this. She is reinvigorating love and excitement for a part of Burgundy I daresay gets a little less than most. Maybe Jason Haynes from Flint Wines says it best: “...whilst many good producers have vines in Fixin, the village has never had a ‘poster boy’ on whom to hang its hat, in the same way as other villages. Until now that is…”.
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