Clotaire Michal - 'Libre Pensée' - Gamay - Beaujolais, FR - 2019
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Elegant and racy, a rtraight-up sexy Gamay. The fruit rubs shoulders with flowers and spices, in an elegant length and a really stunning finesse. Accessible today, here is a bottle that will age brilliantly... but we don't expect it'll last very long!
GRAPE VARIETY: 100% Gamay
ALCOHOL: 11.5
COLOR: Red
CERTIFICATION: Organic
AGEING: 50% oak barrel 50% in fiber vats
VINIFICATION: Whole clusters - Semi-carbonic maceration 12 to 15 days then pressing - 30 days of fermentation
TERROIR: Pink granite sand
After 5 years in Cornas with Thierry Allemand, Clotaire Michal moved for a while to Saint Joseph where he began to produce his first bottles,