Pivoines translates as "peonies" - which is where this beautiful bottle gets its vibrant and enticing label. Inside the bottle is a juicy, fresh and approachable red wine - just what you want from Beaujolais-Villages.
Juicy, super ripe Gamay fruit with flavours of summer fruit compote, typically vibrant acidity and a soft, approachable finish.
Gamay vines grown on the slopes of the rolling Beaujolais hills. Whole bunch Gamay is fermented using traditional carbonic maceration techniques. A short cuvaison is used in order to keep the up-front, juicy, fruit characters.
Good with a charcuterie platter, BBQ sausages or even a hearty salad; try the regional salade Beaujolaise - a poached egg with fried bacon strips on green salad ...and don't forget the garlic!
Gamay is a thin, delicate purple-black skinned grape which is cylindrical and compact, surrounded by flat, fairly even-edged leaves.
Although granite soils seem to be its soil of choice, the variety is good at adapting. Half of the 30,000 hectares of Gamay planted worldwide are in the Beaujolais region of France, where it covers 98% of the areas that produce Beaujolais wine.
The hilly Beaujolais vineyards stretch out from north to south over 55km, bordered to the west by the Massif Central, and to the east by the Saone river.
Beaujolais vineyards are emblematic in the French national landscape, but are still teeming with secrets to be unearthed. The region has a constent sense of welcome and sharing. Sculpted over centuries it is personified by its 12 AOCs.
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