Dominique Piron Coq Leon merenzao The tiny 100g Gin Gin

The tiny 100g Gin Gin clusters are hand harvested at first light to preserve freshness of fruit

acidity and fruit

reminiscent also of the 1990 and 1996 vintages

As far as density

I taste shiraz at any time on the vine and can say what it will do at any point in the growing season and know what it will do as a finished wine

Dominique Piron Coq Leon merenzao The tiny 100g Gin Gin95% Gamay from Beaujolais and Beaujolais Villages combined with 5% Gamaret, grown on granitic soil. The latter, a little known variety created in the 1990s by crossing Gamay with Reichensteiner, had hopes of being authorized for production in Beaujolais, but this never happened. Consequently, there are plots of these vines growing in obscure villages in the region and occasionally, as in this case, it is blended with Gamay to make a plump, darker, and