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Bersan (Domaine JL and JC)
The BERSAN family has been based in Saint-Bris-le-Vineux for many generations. It is thanks to this solid family tradition that the know-how has been transmitted and above all preserved within the Domaine Jean-Louis and Jean-Christophe BERSAN.
Today father and son work together and maintain the heritage by cultivating old vines planted by Louis BERSAN, Jean-Christophe's grandfather, more than 75 years ago. And since 2009, Jean-Christophe has been renewing the vineyard.
The regional archives revealed the presence of the Bersan family from the middle of the 15th century, in the Auxerroise region, but the occupation of the current residence is more recent (end of the 19th century)
Jean-Christophe is at the initiative in 2009 of the passage of 22 hectares of vines to the conversion to organic viticulture. It was then in 2012 that the 22 hectares of vines were certified as organic wines by the certifying body ECOCERT.
The village is located between Auxerre and Chablis, in northern Burgundy, the vineyard is planted on limestone, marl and even clay soil which influences the freshness and brings very marked fruity aromas. The riprap in which the roots interfere dates from the Jurassic period of 150 million years ago (Portlandian, Kimmeridgian) it brings a very typical minerality.
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
