{"product_id":"2024-domaine-berthaut-gerbet-fixin-les-arvelets-1er-cru-burgundy-france","title":"2024 Domaine Berthaut-Gerbet, Fixin, Les Arvelets, 1er Cru, 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\u003eLes Arvelets is the northernmost premier cru in the Côte d’Or, an east-facing, terraced slope between 310 and 340 meters where intact fossil shells turn up in the topsoil. In 1855 Lavalle likened its wine to Gevrey-Chambertin’s Clos Saint-Jacques. The Berthaut parcel lies at the north end of the vineyard, mid-slope on either side of a small path, rooted in crinoidal limestone and sandy marl, with rows planted across the slope and the oldest vines dating to 1956. The 2024 was fermented with just over half its fruit as whole clusters and aged in barrels, about 30 percent of them new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorello cherry and violet sit under white pepper and clove from the stems, with firm, saturated tannins that need time. Drink from 2030 through 2040.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67622176555304,"sku":"AT24BERTHAUTARVELETS750","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/DomaineBerthaut-Gerbet_Fixin_LesArvelets.jpg?v=1791926727","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/2024-domaine-berthaut-gerbet-fixin-les-arvelets-1er-cru-burgundy-france","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}