Bonnet Cotton Fleurie Poncie

Vintage: 2022

Origin: Fleurie, Beaujolais, France

Grapes: Gamay

Alcohol: 13%

Fruit for Cotton's Fleurie Poncié comes from a beautiful old Gamay vineyard facing south towards the village of Fleurie. The grapes are vinified the same as Cotton’s other wines, showcasing the difference between his native terroir of Brouilly and the softer (dare we say refined?) wines from Fleurie. All of the red wines at Cotton are vinified with native yeasts and without SO2 in concrete tanks, then age underground in century-old foudres that were originally built for holding beer before being repurposed in the 1950s and 1960s. Delicate and floral Poncie is dominated by notes of strawberry, cranberry and an underlying smokiness and minerality.