Winemaker Notes

Clear and glistening, the Côte de Brouilly of the Domain releases with air contact subtle red fruit perfumes on which it has been working during its sleeping year. Inside the mouth, it develops its tender and delicates aromas to leave to the palate a keen and constant souvenir of Beaujolais delicacy.

The strength of its temper resides in its balance that shows its ability to bring lightness and firmness at the same time.

Winery Notes

On the flanks of an extinct volcano, the Mont Brouilly, first planted by the Romans, our vineyard is situated in an exceptionally beautiful landscape of growing vines which many observers from the French novelist Colette to Pierre Salinger have found hightly attractive. The summit of the volcano belonged to the estate and part was donated for the construction of the Chapel Lady of Brouilly in the celebration of the victory over vine mildew by the Beaujolais.
The Lafond family whose head was a peer of the French realm and the adminsitrator of the Bank of France sold Chavannes to Pierre Jambon Chanrion in 1861 and it is his grandchildren who still run the vineyard. The Jambon family has often distinguished itself in winemaking since that time, most notably in the improvements its members made the Gamay grape of Burgundy and their perfecting of the techiniques for supporting growing vines on steep slopes.