Pierre-Marie Chermette "Les Griottes" Beaujolais, France 2023

FROM WEYGANDT-METZLER IMPORTING:

THE WINE: Chermette doesn’t exclude their older vines (100 years old!) from the fun of Nouveau. Here, they are the star. Generously textured and complex, it'll even stand up to a little bottle age. Drink one now and another when winter has set in.

THE PRODUCER: A masterful 5th generation grower, Pierre has maintained the strict traditions of his ancestors and of the region, with more tenacity than most. Despite fashions changing, Pierre has, for his entire life, adhered only to the classic methods handed down from his family. This means farming in as sustainable a manner as possible, only using indigenous yeasts for every wine, long fermentations and making whole-cluster (semi-carbonic) wines in the old foudres built by his great-grandfather. Pierre Chermette's yields are so low and the grapes so naturally ripe that he does not chaptalise. The wines are bottled with little or no filtration and the addition of no sulfur or very little depending on the cuvée.