{"product_id":"2020-domaine-grandcour-jean-pierre-pellegrin-gamay-sauvage-geneva-ch","title":"2020 Domaine Grand'Cour \/ Jean-Pierre Pellegrin, Gamay Sauvage, Geneva, Switzerland","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Pellegrin family has farmed in the village of Peissy, just down the Rhône from Geneva at the French border, since 1617. Jean-Pierre Pellegrin studied archaeology before returning to take over the vineyards in 1989, founding Domaine Grand'Cour as a proper winemaking estate in 1994. He restored the family's 600-year-old farmhouse by hand, built a cellar from reclaimed stone, and began expanding the plantings across the gentle glacial slopes of the Mandement, the largest sub-zone of AOC Geneva. Today the estate spans 15 hectares, cultivating more than 25 grape varieties on Jurassic limestone bedrock covered by glacial molasse and sedimentary soils. Jean-Pierre farms organically, harvests by hand in multiple passes, and ferments his top cuvées with indigenous yeasts. In the Swiss wine world, he is known simply as \"the watchmaker\" for his precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAround 2000, Jean-Pierre returned from Burgundy with a cutting of an ancient, nearly forgotten subspecies of gamay. It took fifteen years of vineyard work, and cellar trials before the grape found its full expression in bottle. He now tends 5,000 vines on a half-hectare, producing around 2,000 bottles when yields allow. It earned the name Sauvage at a blind tasting: primal, structured, and nothing like the gamay anyone expected. The fruit is whole-cluster fermented and aged in second-use French oak barrels for 11 to 15 months.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTasted blind, the Gamay Sauvage has been mistaken for pinot noir, and it’s easy to see why. The 2020 is powerful but precise, with dark cherry, wild blueberry, and a thread of iron beneath fine-grained tannins. There is a spice and smokiness to the finish and an acidity that keeps everything taut and lifted. Gamay at its most evocative and cellar-worthy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51402158211368,"sku":"AT20PELLEGRINGAMAY750","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/2020DomaineGrand_Cour_Jean-PierrePellegrin_GamaySauvage_Geneva_Switzerland.jpg?v=1772748088","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/2020-domaine-grandcour-jean-pierre-pellegrin-gamay-sauvage-geneva-ch","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}