Champ des Treilles- Vin de France Rouge 2022

Champ de Treilles

The Comme’s vineyards are a truly beautiful place. Learning how to stir the nettle tea is a memory I’ll not forget. As for the wine itself: hiding behind this purposely plain Vin de France label (they dropped the AOC a couple years back to be done with the paperwork), Jean-Michel & Corinne have bottled a wine that is as serious, thoughtful, and elegant as they are. This wine is structured like a classified growth — grip, body, and acid to go the distance for decades — with the chief distinction that it is largely aged in concrete to preserve the purest possible expression of the fruit. The nose gives black plum, tomato, olive, parilla, stewed sour cherry, blue corn flower, and an almost Mexican spice cabinet’s je ne sais quoi. Indigenous yeast; unfined & unfiltered; minimal SO2 additions; majority old vines with many planted before the brutal frost of 1956. The production is limited yet the prices are kind. It’s such an honour for us to represent this wine.

Country:  France

Region:  Saint-Foy, Bordeaux

Appellation:  Vin de France

Climate:  Temperate oceanic climate

Altitude:  110m

Soils:  Clay. Limestone and Flint

Varietal/Blend:  Merlot with 30% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 5% Petit Verdot

Fermentation:  An indigenous ferment with a very delicate extraction, all cap work by hand with punch downs as needed and no remontage.

Ageing:  They've decided to move away from oak, instead ageing the wine entirely in cement to capture a greater degree of purity.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Estate vineyards. Biodynamic since the 90's.

ABV:  14.0%

Produced Cases:  ~30,000 bottles

CSPC:  120792

About the Producer

Corinne & Jean-Michel Comme


Saint Foy, Bordeaux,France

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Champ des Treilles- Vin de France Rouge 2022
Champ de Treilles

Country:  France

Region:  Saint-Foy, Bordeaux

Appellation:  Vin de France

The Comme’s vineyards are a truly beautiful place. Learning how to stir the nettle tea is a memory I’ll not forget. As for the wine itself: hiding behind this purposely plain Vin de France label (they dropped the AOC a couple years back to be done with the paperwork), Jean-Michel & Corinne have bottled a wine that is as serious, thoughtful, and elegant as they are. This wine is structured like a classified growth — grip, body, and acid to go the distance for decades — with the chief distinction that it is largely aged in concrete to preserve the purest possible expression of the fruit. The nose gives black plum, tomato, olive, parilla, stewed sour cherry, blue corn flower, and an almost Mexican spice cabinet’s je ne sais quoi. Indigenous yeast; unfined & unfiltered; minimal SO2 additions; majority old vines with many planted before the brutal frost of 1956. The production is limited yet the prices are kind. It’s such an honour for us to represent this wine.

TECHNICAL INFO

Climate:  Temperate oceanic climate

Altitude:  110m

Soils:  Clay. Limestone and Flint

Varietal/Blend:  Merlot with 30% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 5% Petit Verdot

Fermentation:  An indigenous ferment with a very delicate extraction, all cap work by hand with punch downs as needed and no remontage.

Ageing:  They've decided to move away from oak, instead ageing the wine entirely in cement to capture a greater degree of purity.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Estate vineyards. Biodynamic since the 90's.

ABV:  14.0%

Produced Cases:  ~30,000 bottles

CSPC:  120792

Giovanni Autuori
Calgary + Alberta South

T: 403-971-1898

E: giovanni@vinoalvino.ca

Joe Gurba
Edmonton + Alberta North

T: 780-203-5284

E: joeg@vinoalvino.ca

Champ des Treilles- Vin de France Rouge 2022
Champ de Treilles
The Comme’s vineyards are a truly beautiful place. Learning how to stir the nettle tea is a memory I’ll not forget. As for the wine itself: hiding behind this purposely plain Vin de France label (they dropped the AOC a couple years back to be done with the paperwork), Jean-Michel & Corinne have bottled a wine that is as serious, thoughtful, and elegant as they are. This wine is structured like a classified growth — grip, body, and acid to go the distance for decades — with the chief distinction that it is largely aged in concrete to preserve the purest possible expression of the fruit. The nose gives black plum, tomato, olive, parilla, stewed sour cherry, blue corn flower, and an almost Mexican spice cabinet’s je ne sais quoi. Indigenous yeast; unfined & unfiltered; minimal SO2 additions; majority old vines with many planted before the brutal frost of 1956. The production is limited yet the prices are kind. It’s such an honour for us to represent this wine.

TECHNICAL INFO

Country:  France

Region:  Saint-Foy, Bordeaux

Appellation:  Vin de France

Climate:  Temperate oceanic climate

Altitude:  110m

Soils:  Clay. Limestone and Flint

Varietal/Blend:  Merlot with 30% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 5% Petit Verdot

Fermentation:  An indigenous ferment with a very delicate extraction, all cap work by hand with punch downs as needed and no remontage.

Ageing:  They've decided to move away from oak, instead ageing the wine entirely in cement to capture a greater degree of purity.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Estate vineyards. Biodynamic since the 90's.

ABV:  14.0%

Produced Cases:  ~30,000 bottles

CSPC:  120792

Calgary + Alberta South

Andrew Stewart

403-604-0408

andrew@vinoalvino.ca

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780-203-5284

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