Chateau de Beru Athénais Pinot Gris Skin Contact 2020

Country: France

Region: Burgundy

Type: Orange Wine

Grape: Pinot Gris

Chateau de Beru is a 400 year old domaine making some of the best terroir in Chablis, but for centuries the potential of the beautiful 17th century estate went unrealized until  the 1980's, when Count Eric de Beru replanted the vines including the unique walled vineyard, Clos Beru. When he became ill, the vineyards were rented and the grapes sold to the cooperative until his daughter Athénais took over in 2006.

Since then, Athénais has been working the 15 hectares of vines using biodynamic methods in this incredible terroir, with calcareous-clay soils of the Kimmeridgian era (with deposits of fossilised oysters dating back 150+ million years) at 300 metres above sea level, using natural methods including horses rather than tractors, with no additives in the cellar.

Recently she has started to ferment a very small amount of fruit with the skins in Amphorae to make tiny quantities of orange wines, including this fascinating Pinot Gris.