Chiroubles

Around 80 wine-growers produce this ruby-red wine, with its aromas dominated by violet, iris, lily-of-the-valley, and peony. Its flavours of red berry fruits express the Gamay grape variety remarkably well. Chiroubles has an opulent quality, giving wine-lovers the pleasant sensation of sliding across the palate. Soft, fruity, with youthful freshness, it comes from poor, shallow soils that are remarkably homogeneous. Hard up against the Beaujolais hills, this is the highest appellation, lying at an altitude between 250 m and 450 m. Because the temperatures in Chiroubles are lower than the other areas in Beaujolais, grape harvesting for this wine is later, around a week after the general announcement to start the harvest has been given in the wine-growing region.