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Fleurie Origines, Domaine Grégoire Hoppenot 2022
A beautifully floral Beaujolais Cru wine from rising star Greg Hoppenot. Bags of pleasure for drinking now and over the next couple of years.
Price:
£16.00
Bottle
Price:
£192.00
Case of 12
In Stock
Code: BJ10161
Wine characteristics
- Red Wine
- Light to medium-bodied
- Gamay
- 75cl
- Now to 2026
- 13% Alcohol
- no oak influence
- Cork, diam
Grégoire Hoppenot
Having spent some time on the senior team at renowned Beaujolais négociants Trenel, Grégoire Hoppenot has now stepped into the spotlight with his own excellent domaine at Les Roches in Fleurie, with his debut vintage coming in 2018. After years traversing the Beaujolais region in his previous role it was time to find his feet in his own vineyards, getting a real sense of place and expressing it in the wines that he makes. He says that his job is to convey the purest expression of a wine’s origin, its terroir, and the vintage and he works hard among the vines to achieve that.
His domaine embraces two slopes with very different characteristics, and between those slopes there is much diversity too, variations in geology, aspects and exposures, and altitudes. He has five distinct ‘climats’ across the two slopes, where he farms on organic lines (he is converting but has yet to be certified). Les Garants is truly typical of Fleurie, poor granite soils with quartz quite visible, overlooking the village itself with a south-south-west aspect and densely planted vines that can be up to 60 years old. At Les Moriers, just under a kilometre shy of Moulin-à-Vent, just under three hectares are granite too, but with a sandy element that deepens as the slope descends from 340 metres, and the vines look north-east. Here the vines can be up to 90 years old. Clos de l'Amandier is a monopole of the estate, in the south-eastern part of Poncié, one of the finest of Fleurie climats. Its steep...