Jean-Paul Brun Domaine des Terres Dorees FRV 100 Sparkling Beaujolais

Winemaker Notes: The name "FRV100" is a play on the word “effervescent”—which becomes more apparent when you sound out the letters and number in —Frenchand is indicative of the playfulness of this off-dry, sparkling rosé.

From organically farmed estate Gamay on limestone clay soils in the southern Beaujolais around Jean-Paul's home village of Charnay, it is made by the méthode ancestrale: the hand-harvested fruit is destemmed and fermented in vat until it reaches around 6% alcohol. It is then lightly filtered and bottled and finishes fermenting with indigenous yeasts in the bottle. The result is a light-bodied, gently sparkling, gently sweet, low-ABV vin de soif, reminiscent of a Cerdon de Bugey. The vintage never appears on the label (there is no allowance for sparkling Gamay in Beaujolais) but it is always a single-vintage wine.