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Famille Dutraive
Chénas · Beaujolais · France
Famille Dutraive is the négociant and family label of Jean-Louis Dutraive and his children, rooted in Domaine de la Grand’Cour in Fleurie — one of Beaujolais’s historic benchmark estates, held by the family for five generations. After frost and hail years that cut estate yields, the Dutraives began buying organic Gamay from trusted growers across the crus, bottling under Famille Dutraive from villages such as Chénas, Chiroubles, Saint-Amour and Lantignié alongside the domaine wines. Jean-Louis has long pursued vins de terroir first: whole or partially whole-cluster ferments, indigenous yeasts, concrete and large wood, and little added sulphur. The Famille range keeps that same light hand while letting each cru’s granite or clay speak.
“His sons Justin, Noël and others now carry the project forward, each with their own parcels as well.”
Together they form one of the clearest voices of the Beaujolais renaissance — Gamay that is structured yet transparent, built on farming rather than fashion.
