- SIZE:
- 75cl
This plot is just 1.3 hectares. Amélie decided to use 30% whole cluster in this wine, lending a lovely texture. The wine spent a year in oak following fermentation. This wine is a captivating step up; in richness, in complexity, in elegance.
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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