One couldn’t ask for a better location than the position enjoyed by Jonathan Buisson and his wife Chloë and their Domaine Les Roches Bleues on the slopes of the majestic Mont Brouilly, in southern Beaujolais. The domain began in 1967 when Chloë’s grandparents, Annie and Louis Bassy, acquired a few hectares of vines with the strong desire to start their own wine domain. It was a daring idea at a time when very few growers owned their own vines and most small producers primarily sold to the large negociants, who reigned supreme. The family was quality-minded from the beginning, and the domain has seen lots of success in the decades since its founding. A fresh start came In 2017, when the young and charismatic third generation, Jonathan and Chloë, took over the estate, beginning the transformation of the domain around the production of organic and natural wines according to the principles of agroecology, with the incorporation of agroforestry techniques at the estate. The focus of the domaine is producing the purest, most delicious expression of terroirs as possible. Domaine Les Roches Bleues enjoys exceptional growing conditions, with the famous pierre bleue (diorite, a hard, blue-hued igneous rock typical of Côte de Brouilly) giving delicious wines with incredible energy, structure, and freshness.
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