Cremant FRV 100
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Description
The name "FRV100" is a play on the word “effervescent”, which becomes more apparent when you sound out the letters and number in French, and is indicative of the playfulness of this off-dry, sparkling rosé.
From organically farmed estate Gamay on limestone clay soils in the southern Beaujolais around Jean-Paul's home village of Charnay, it is made by the méthode ancestrale: the hand-harvested fruit is destemmed and fermented in vat until it reaches around 6% alcohol. It is then lightly filtered and bottled and finishes fermenting with indigenous yeasts and remaining sugars in the bottle. The result is a light-bodied, gently sparkling, gently sweet, low-ABV vin de soif, reminiscent of a Cerdon de Bugey. The vintage never appears on the label (there is no allowance for sparkling Gamay in Beaujolais) but it is always a single-vintage wine. This current bottling is from the 2018 vintage.
Grape 100% Gamay
Food match Delicious with some brie, pastas and cured meat