| Region of production: | Beaujolais |
| Winery Location: | Charnay |
| Year Established: | 1979 |
Vineyard Holdings
16 ha
- Morgon: soil is granite
- Fleurie: soil is granite
- Côte de Brouilly: soil is granite
- Moulin-à-Vent: soil is granite
- Beaujolais AOC: soil is clay and limestone
Top Wines Produced
- Morgon
- Fleurie
- Côte de Brouilly
- Moulin-à-Vent
- Beaujolais „L’Ancien“: from vines 80+ years old
Average Total Production
- N/A
Summary
Originally, the Terres Dorées land was the Brun family farm with only four hectares of wines, whose grapes the family sold to the local cooperative. In the 1970s, Jean-Paul expressed an interest in winemaking to his father, and in 1977 they began making and bottling their own wine, officially establishing Domaine des Terres Dorées in 1979. Today, Jean-Paul Brun is recognized for making Beaujolais in a less traditional and more Burgundian fashion, having decided early on that Beaujolais’ traditional whole-cluster, semi-carbonic fermentation wasn’t appropriate for the wines he wanted to make. He also staunchly believes in using only his vineyard’s wild yeast for fermentation, rather than synthetic forms.
Style & Vinification Techniques
Grapes are hand-sorted before de-stemming, then placed in fermentation vats using indigenous yeasts. The wines undergo four to six weeks of maceration and are aged in cement or neutral barrels, depending on vintage and appellation. Wines are bottled and released in the late spring following harvest.
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