2021 Clos De La Roilette, Fleurie ‘La Griffe Du Marquis’, Beaujolais, France

100% Gamay. Grapes from most of Roilette’s oldest vines go into the Cuve Tardive” bottling, but a small portion of them dating back to 1930 are reserved for the smallest of all Roilette production, La Griffe du Marquis, the only barrique-aged wine from this cellar. As for the other estate vines, the soils are heavy clay with relatively little granite and quite a lot of the iron-like mineral manganese. The farming is sustainable or lutte raisonne. All vineyard work is by hand; the soils are worked only superficially, at most twice per year, to protect the roots of the older vines.