Vin de France from Auvergne by Jean Maupertuis.
Jean Maupertuis with frozen hands at the 2010 Dives Bouteilles.
Jean Maupertuis tends 3,8 hectares of vines in the commune of St-Georges-ès-Allier and la Roche Noir. He works principally with a local strain of Gamay referred to as "Gamay D'Auvergne", but also owns a little bit of Pinot Noir and a tiny amount of Noirfleurien, an ancient local varietal found only in his neighboring village of Mirefleurs. Most of his vines are older, ranging from 40 to 100+ years.
Jean doesn't use chemical fertilizers, insecticides or herbicides in the vineyard, preferring to work his soils and develop their indigenous microflora. Everything is hand harvested and manually sorted before reaching the cellar. Most of Jean's wines are vinified through carbonic maceration, which permits him to avoid adding sulfur at bottling.
VdF "Pink Bulles"
Soil: Limestone
Grape: Gamay
Vines: at least 40 years old.
Vinification: Pétillant Naturel
VdF "Gris Foncé"
Soil: limestone
Grape: Gamay
Vines: At least 40 years old
Vinification: harvested very ripe (+14% alc). Fermented in barrel for 18 to 22 days at low temperature under carbonic pressure.
VdF "La Guillaume"
Soil: marl and limestone
Grape: Gamay
Vines: at least 40 years old
Vinification: Carbonic Maceration. No sulfur at bottling.
VdF "Les Pierres Noires"
Soil: limestone on clay matrix with a landslide of volcanic basalt phonolites.
Grape: Gamay
Vines: 80-100 years old.
Vinification: carbonic maceration. No sulfur at bottling.
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