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Grand'Cour (Fleurie)
Fleurie · Beaujolais · France
At the core of Domaine de la Grand’Cour lies the Clos de la Grand’Cour itself: a 6.4-hectare monopole on a plateau at about 300 metres in southern Fleurie, over fairly deep soils on granite bedrock. Jean-Louis Dutraive bottles the younger vines of the clos (around forty-five years) as Fleurie Clos de la Grand’Cour and the oldest rows (near eighty years) as Vieilles Vignes – Le Clos, with yields often under twenty hectolitres per hectare in tough years. Nearby lieux-dits Chapelle des Bois and Champagne — old vines on sandy topsoil over weathered granite — complete the Fleurie map. Farming is organic; vinification stays in concrete with indigenous yeasts, then short élevage in demi-muids, foudres or tank.
“The Fleurie wines are the estate’s floral, granite-driven face: red berry, violet and a fine tannic thread that ages quietly.”
Distinct from the clay-limestone Brouilly parcel, they define what Grand’Cour means on its home appellation.
