Bonnet Cotton, Cote de Brouilly ‘100% Cotton’, 2023 so050421 robert moncuit energetic charm

energetic charm

From the producer: Akashi White Oak is a blended whisky reserved in Japanese Shochu cask (American Oak) for 3 years

and mildew wiped out 85% of Maison Moussé's harvest

giving the wine a vertical feel

much like the valley itself

Bonnet Cotton, Cote de Brouilly ‘100% Cotton’, 2023 so050421 robert moncuit energetic charmThis is the wine that put Domaine Bonnet Cotton on the map, the emblematic cuvee from Pierre Cotton and Marine Bonnet. It comes from a parcel of 'corne verte' on Cote de Brouilly, an unusual blend of pink granite and diorite that Pierre says exists nowhere else in Beaujolais, and the extra elevation gives a firmer, more structured Gamay than the flatter Brouilly nearby. Organic farming, whole cluster carbonic maceration, eight months in foudre, and no