Vieilles Vignes Coup de Foudre, 2023

Dark cherry, plum and a flick of blood orange over chalky tannin, from old Fleurie vines on granite.

Dark cherry and plum with a touch of blood orange, lively acidity and chalky tannin, going by the 2020. Coup de Foudre (French for love at first sight) is Yann Bertrand's old-vine Fleurie, from a two-hectare plot of 50- to 70-year-old Gamay on fine granite. Whole bunches ferment by carbonic maceration, then the wine rests in old 225-litre barrels and larger demi-muids, and close to a year in bottle before it leaves the cellar. Farmed biodynamically, made without sulphur.