France, Fleurie AOC
Gamay
Description
This Fleurie is very different. Located on the highest hill of the Fleurie appellation, its soil, made of blacker and burnt granite, gives a more robust, rich and spicy wine. It is advisable to keep it for one or two years so that it reveals all the intensity of its aromas of red fruit, blackcurrant and wild blackberry.
Awards
Gold Concours General Agricole
Certificates
Alcohol
13.0%
Analytical data
Vinification
Whole cluster during 10 to 12 day
Vineyard
An entire working year can be wiped out in a few seconds by a hailstorm, sometimes destroying the entire crop. For this reason, in 1911, two inventors decided to erect enormous electric pylons in the Beaujolais area, as well as in other regions of France. Inevitably, the best known of these was the Eiffel Tower, which was similarly equipped.
These pylons were intended to prevent the formation of hailstones by neutralizing the electricity held in thunder-clouds or, if already formed, making them fall softly without force. The pylons allowed electric charges from the earth to dissipate in large quantities into the atmosphere, thus neutralizing those in the clouds.
A considerable sum was invested in these pylons, which rose to an impressive (at that time) 40 meters in height, and so the system was named « NIAGARA » by its inventors. In the language of the time, the term Niagara indicated something grandiose by comparing itself with the famous waterfalls.
Having cost a great deal to erect, and having yielded poor results, the Niagara pylons were dismantled in 1921. The pylon has now long gone from the estate, undoubtedly for the better, leaving only the name to describe the grandiose beauty of the site itself.
Maturation
Concret or stainless steel vat
