La Grand'Cour (J.L. Dutraive)

Estate

Domaine de la Grand'Cour is an eleven-and-a-half-hectare estate in Fleurie, run by Jean-Louis Dutraive, third generation of the family on the property. Jean-Louis came up alongside Marcel Lapierre and Yvon Métras, part of the small circle of Beaujolais vignerons who refused the commodity path when the rest of the region had largely been swallowed by industrial Nouveau production.

His eldest son Justin runs his own small domaine of under two hectares elsewhere in the cru, first vintage 2015. The Famille Dutraive label was created in 2016 after a hailstorm decimated estate fruit. It carries wines made by Jean-Louis's children (Justin, Ophélie and Lucas) from purchased grapes farmed in the same spirit.

Farming

Certified organic, but the practice goes deeper than the certification. Whole-cluster fermentation, native yeasts, no additions, aged in concrete. No filtration. The wines carry a register of granite and red fruit and something close to florals, Gamay shaped by the way it is made as much as the soil it comes from.

At a glance

Home

La Grand'Cour, Fleurie

Cellar

Little to no added sulfites

Farming

EU certified organic, farmed naturally

Succession

Ophélie leading since 2017, with Justin and Lucas

Wines in our book

• Grand 'Cour, Fleurie, Chapelle des Bois (Dutraive), 2023
  Red · Fleurie AOC · Gamay
• Grand 'Cour, Fleurie, Clos de la Grand Cour, 2023
  Red · Fleurie AOC · Gamay
• Grand 'Cour, Fleurie, Cuvee Vieilles Vignes, Le Clos, 2023
  Red · Fleurie AOC · Gamay
• Grand 'Cour, Fleurie, Vieilles Vignes, Champagne, 2023
  Red · Fleurie AOC · Gamay
• Grand' Cour, Brouilly, Cuvee Vieilles Vignes, 2023
  Red · Brouilly AOC · Gamay

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