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Bonnet (Closed of)
Location: Condrieu (Rhône) Vineyard: 1.5 ha in organic cultivation
Website: www.clos-de-la-bonnette.fr
Le Clos de la Bonnette is a small vineyard and its history is not trivial. Since Roman times, who knows maybe before, it has been built on the hillsides in the heart of Condrieu.
For centuries, women and men erected steep chalées held there by dry stone walls that the pickax tore from the hill. It's a story carved into the rock, chiseled by a south and west sun, a story of arms, heat and thirst.
Le Clos experienced prosperous times, strength was not lacking and the carefully maintained chaillées revealed beautiful landscapes nestled above a valley and facing the Rhône river.
Because the vineyard has always been a friend of the river which gives it its power. It owes it its slopes, its mists and its winds. From ancient barges to modern barges, this great cart, dear to the poet Frédéric Mistral, makes the link between the hillsides and the rest of the world.
Between happy stories and dark hours, the Clos has its legend, its abandonments and its rebirths.
Guiller-Montabonnet family
Today a new page is being written, from the look and the energy of winegrowers who chose to rescue it from the forest and from oblivion without ever giving in to ease.
The vineyard tells the story of vines that the chestnut stakes protect from the force of the winds and which, clinging to the slope, fight against the harshness of scorching summers by plunging their roots into the heart of the granite.
It recounts the adventure of the earth and of peasant winegrowers leaning towards it and shaping each other mutually, an adventure of love and grapes, of scree and brambles, of enthusiasm, of life at the foot of the wall and of benevolent friendships.
He tells us that there is no great landscape without great work, no great wine without great landscape.
A story of arms, heat and thirst, and a transmission
Antoine Montabonnet is now ensuring the progression of the vineyard with plots in Côte-Rôtie and new plantations in Condrieu and Collines rhodaniennes. Other projects are to come…
What does the name organize mean?
This can be so diverse depending on the personality of their sire, that it is easier to define what it is not. An author wine is anything but a standard, stereotypical wine, made to please as many people as possible. It is therefore rarely produced in millions of copies, copying itself from vintage in vintage.
An author wine is therefore a wine that does not look like that of the neighbor. Which from year to year will evolve according to the vagaries of the weather and the mood of the author - the two that can be linked. Because the author does not rely on market studies to carry out his boat. He makes his wine as he feels, as he likes, as he can, sometimes ... and too bad if he does not please everyone.
This is why author wines are sometimes classified as "table wine" or "France wine". Because the winemaker did not plan the authorized grape variety*, makes the assembly or vinification recommended in the name **. He is often a bit rebellious, our author. But that is why we like it! ... That said, author's wines are not systematically marginal: they are present in most of the appellations, and can be part of the elite of these this***. Because they are not content to have personality: they are good, in addition! With in general aDegree of TorchabilityVery high: we never tire of it at the end of the first sip.
As author's wines are not chaptalized, levied, hacked ... They can have very different profiles depending on the vintage. It is up to us (resellers and consumers) to accept them as they are, and to remain faithful to the producers, because they need us to continue their activity.
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* For example, theTouriga Nacionalin the Minervois, or theSyrahIn Forez ribs. They are crazy, these authors!
** Some winegrowers dare to produceSweety with Mourvèdre or oneNatural sparkling with Pineau d'Aunis
*** Like those of Jean-François Ganevat in the Jura or Zind-Humbercht in Alsace
