{"product_id":"2024-domaine-berthaut-gerbet-fixin-les-clos-burgundy-france","title":"2024 Domaine Berthaut-Gerbet, Fixin, Les Clos, 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 Clos lies in the north of the appellation, in what was once the separate village of Fixey, on a gentle mid-slope at about 310 meters. The Berthauts own 1.3 of its 1.5 hectares, and an 1896 survey lists a Paul and a Pierre Berthaud among its three principal owners. The oldest vines went into the ground in 1933. Geologist Françoise Vannier has mapped six faults beneath this one vineyard, so the roots meet at least four kinds of bedrock, the reddish topsoil strewn with fossil oyster shells and rounded cobbles washed down from the Combe Laveau. The 2024 was fully destemmed and aged in barrels, about 20 percent of them new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRedcurrant, raspberry, and peony come with bright acidity and tannins that have the fine grain of chalk. It suits a light chill and the first course. Drink through 2032.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67622170657064,"sku":"AT24BERTHAUTCLOS750","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/DomaineBerthaut-Gerbet_Fixin_LesClos_a2339083-b19e-4b28-b570-ec982d1a7797.jpg?v=1791929557","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/2024-domaine-berthaut-gerbet-fixin-les-clos-burgundy-france","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}