Domaine Chamonard
Jean-Claude and Jeanne Chanudet
Welcome to Corcelette, in Villié-Morgon, where Domaine Chamonard needs no introduction. Rooted in the Beaujolais landscape, Jean-Claude Chanudet is making way for his daughter Jeanne, just as talented as her father. At the heart of the Morgon and Fleurie appellations, their work is built on respect for the environment and reveals Gamay in a new light.
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The wines of Domaine Chamonard
Le Chat and his daughter Jeanne Chanudet
Did someone say Beaujolais? Perfect, here we are back with Gamay, the favourite grape at Epi-curieux. And this is no ordinary address: Jean-Claude Chanudet, known as "Le Chat". From the generation of Marcel Lapierre, Le Chat is one of the pioneers of natural wine. He makes digestible, elegant, fine wines renowned for growing more magnificent with time. Anyone lucky enough to have tasted his old vintages will tell you the same!
The story of Jean-Claude Chanudet
A benchmark of natural wine and of Beaujolais, Jean-Claude Chanudet is one of the great names of this world.
Before becoming a winemaker, he ran a bottling business. Only in 1989 did he decide to become an artisan winemaker by taking over his father-in-law's estate: so Domaine Chamonard was born, in the heart of Morgon, in Villié-Morgon, where Le Chat settled with his wife Geneviève.
At the time, this great Morgon terroir was the ideal place for winemakers to make committed wines without chemicals. But who was countering the rise of conventional wines and putting living wines, terroir Gamays, back on the table? There was Jean Foillard, Georges Descombes, of course Marcel Lapierre, and Jean-Claude Chanudet. Their mentor: Jules Chauvet and all his expertise in natural wines.
Jean-Claude thus makes his wines by giving power to nature and terroir, in a return to tradition. He has passed his passion on to his daughter: Jeanne, a trained vet, joined the family adventure to carry on this absolute mastery of Gamay, and is gradually taking over the estate with already well-established talent.
From the start, the estate has sought to put terroir first and let Gamay express itself as naturally as possible, showcasing old vines tended with peasant common sense.
The terroir of Domaine Chamonard
The estate lies in the Morgon and Fleurie appellations, with vines aged 60 to 90 years on pink granite, decomposed rock and crumbly schist.
From the outset, Le Chat and his wife wanted to be as non-interventionist as possible. They farm organically, with respect for the environment above all. No machines are used in the vineyard: the work is rigorous and done by hand, with at most some light ploughing. The same approach applies in the cellar: no chemicals, native yeasts and extremely limited intervention. Thanks to these artisans, Beaujolais Gamay reveals another side of itself. While remaining digestible, the estate's Morgons and Fleuries are reputed for extraordinary ageing potential. Perhaps you will be lucky enough to taste one of the old vintages still sleeping in their cellar…
The cuvées of Domaine Chamonard
The wines of Jeanne and her father are healthy, terroir-driven and chemical-free, appreciated for being digestible and straight.
The estate naturally offers its Morgon cuvée. From granite soil, it is vinified in whole bunches with 15 days of semi-carbonic maceration, then aged for 10 months. A juice that has it all: elegance, complexity, fruit. A Morgon to keep in your cellar for the most curious…
Fleurie Droit de Véto is the first cuvée vinified by Jeanne, a nod to her training as a vet, a job she still does part time. On arrival she took on more vines: the estate will soon reach 9 hectares. From pink granite soil, this cuvée undergoes 15 days of carbonic maceration, then 7 to 8 months in barrels. A fully mastered wine that, as is the house signature, will age beautifully.
The Fleurie cuvée offers a juice of finesse and delicacy, despite a hot vintage that made balance difficult, with 10 to 12 months in barrels.
Gamays like few others, juices that stand the test of time beautifully.
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