BEAUJOLAIS

light, good color. The Brouilly wines are light and supple, fruity, complete and well made.

the appellation covers the malor part of the commune. The East and South comes under the Moulin-à-vent A.O.C. Robust, rather tannic and forthcoming wines.

obtained by quick maturation, very fruity and velvety. It should either be drunk "en primeur" within two to three months after haversing, or allowed to age.

Plus corsés que les vins de Brouilly. Leur sol est constitué de formations primaires du dévonien supérieur, dans lesquelles on note la présence de roches dures vert sombre à noir d'origine volcanique, c'est la fameuse pierre bleue de Brouilly, appelée aussi corne verte.

the most elegant of the Beaujolais. Finer and more distinguished than the Moulin-à-vent or the Chénas, extremely fruity, it is a charming and seductive wine.

better balanced and structured than the Saint-Amour, the Juliénas keeps its youthful fruitiness quite a long time. A full-bodied second category Beaujolais, it keeps rather well.

dense, robust wines that generally improve in the bottle. The stronger wines come from halfway down the hill, particularly when they are vinified in the traditional way using grapes from old vines.

considered to be the best wine of the region. Planted mostly in the communes of Romanéche-Thorins and around Chénas, the reds produced in decomposing pink granite soil are full, rich, well-balanced and fragrant ; good keeping wines.

In regard to its soil, the commune of Régnié belongs, for the most part, to the granitic block known as "de Fleurie". The technically oriented reader will like to know that is a pink granite of average granulation, locally porphyritic, and of low mica content. The paragenesis is this rock-made up of quartz, hypidiomorphe plagioclases, and Carlsbad macled orthoclase, is relatively simple.

very light wines, fruity, pleasant, easy to drink.