Lafarge Vial Cote de Brouilly 2021 Big Bottle Stephane Vivier

Stephane Vivier

Willi Schaefer farms barely four hectares in Graach

northwest of Montpellier

Ambient yeast fermentation in open wood vats with punch-downs

The wine is fermented in stainless steel tanks

Lafarge Vial Cote de Brouilly 2021 Big Bottle Stephane VivierMont Brouilly's blue stone is the calling card of Cte de Brouilly, and Lafarge Vial's parcel, the lieu dit Brulhi, hangs southeast facing on its steep slopes: two thirds of a hectare of Gamay planted in the late 1960s in granite threaded with blue rock, plowed by horse because tractors cannot hold the grade. The domaine is the Beaujolais venture of Frdric and Chantal Lafarge of Volnay, established in 2014 and farmed biodynamically from the outset, now