Dynamite, 2023

Firmer and darker than his Fleuries: cherry, strawberry and dried flowers from a sliver of century-old vines that strays over the line into Morgon.

Cherry, strawberry and dried flowers with a mineral edge, and the acidity in charge. Dynamite comes from a single 1.16-hectare plot of 80- to 110-year-old Gamay where Yann Bertrand's Grand Pré vines run across the boundary into Morgon, on poor, granitic sandstone that keeps yields small. Certified organic and biodynamic, fermented with wild yeast and no added sulphur. Earlier vintages spent seven to nine months in used barrels, and showed weight and spicy black cherry without heavy tannin.