2023-12-20 23:04:21
Beaujolais like Burgundy? Although they deny wanting to imitate the neighboring vineyard, Beaujolais winegrowers have officially launched the process of classifying wines that best characterize their terroirs as premier cru. After Fleurie, which identified seven localities and submitted its file to the National Institute of Appellations of Origin (Inao) last October, it is the turn of the Brouilly cru – the first of Beaujolais on the surface – to be to run as a candidate. The document is tied up and will be entrusted to INAO at the beginning of 2024.
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The official request for recognition as a premier cru concerns sixteen out of the eighty-two identified places of the AOC Brouilly. “The Brouilly vintage extends over six communes. It includes 1,230 ha of AOC Brouilly and 350 ha of Côte de Brouilly,” recalls Emmanuel Jambon, president of the Terre des Brouilly association. According to him, “the premier cru is not necessarily the best wine, but it is the one which has a particular typicity”.
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