{"product_id":"2024-domaine-berthaut-gerbet-champ-des-charmes-fixin-blanc-burgundy-france","title":"2024 Domaine Berthaut-Gerbet, Champ des Charmes, Fixin Blanc, Burgundy, France","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe doorway at 9 Rue Noisot in Fixin has carried the same carved motto since 1693: Bien faire vaut mieux que dire. Doing well is better than saying so. Amélie Berthaut is the seventh generation of her family to make wine in this village. She trained as an agronomist and enologist in Bordeaux and worked harvests in Bandol, Napa, and New Zealand, and she came home with ideas. In the middle of the late, wet harvest of 2013, her father, Denis, told her that since she knew it all, she could make the wines. She was 25. Her domaine carries both her parents’ names: Berthaut for the family’s vines in Fixin, Gerbet for part of her mother’s family holdings in Vosne-Romanée, about 18 hectares in all. Her husband, Nicolas Faure, a veteran of the vineyards at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, farms them organically. In 1855, Dr. Jules Lavalle recorded that Fixin’s Clos de la Perrière sold for the same price as Chambertin; a century later the village was known for hard, rustic reds and little else. Amélie is widely credited with changing that. She ferments with indigenous yeasts in concrete tanks painted her favorite red-violet, extracts with pump-overs and a few light punch-downs by foot, and never fines. Her cellar sits near 45°F in winter, so the wines finish slowly and on their own schedule.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite wine accounts for roughly three percent of Fixin, and this half-hectare is the domaine’s only white from the village. Champ des Charmes lies beside Les Crais on the low slope below the houses, where the alluvial soil turns paler and carries more limestone than the ground around it. In 2009 the family gave the parcel over to chardonnay, judging the site better suited to white grapes than to pinot noir. The fruit is pressed as whole clusters and the juice settles cold for a day or two, then begins fermenting in steel and finishes in barrel, where it stays for about a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2024 shows lemon zest, green apple, and white peach, with a little toasted hazelnut from the barrel and a chalky, salted finish. Drink through 2030.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67622126846248,"sku":"AT24BERTHAUTCHARMESBLANC750","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/DomaineBerthaut-Gerbet_ChampdesCharmes_FixinBlanc.jpg?v=1791929975","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/2024-domaine-berthaut-gerbet-champ-des-charmes-fixin-blanc-burgundy-france","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}