BRET BROTHERS MACON-VILLAGES CUVÉE TERROIRS du MACONNAIS 2023

Organic. This terrific-value wine is a blend from several of the Bret brothers’ parcels based in Mâcon-Villages, Saint-Véran and Pouilly-Fuissé, as well as the last 50 litres of each of La Soufrandière’s premium biodynamic wines. All up, the vines average 50 years of age. It aged half in tank and half in older barrels for 11 months before bottling. It may only be the starting wine but sets quite the marker. With the emphasis on the vintage’s juicy, golden citrus fruit, with some crystalline pear richness, it’s a classy, nuanced, complex wine with terrific texture, citrusy drive and mouth-watering stone fruits bobbing and weaving throughout the creamy texture. Every inch the bargain.

Jean-Guillaume and Jean-Philippe launched Bret Brothers in early August 2001, with the aim of making great terroir wines, primarily from Southern Burgundy. This ambitious objective implies rigorous specifications to which they have faith: they give the same care and passion to those grapes as they would to the grapes coming from their Domaine La Soufrandiere.

They have quickly become leaders in the region, deeply committed to expressing the special characteristics of the best parcels of old vines through natural farming and meticulous winemaking.

Winery notes (2023 Vintage)
"Most part of our Mâcon-Villages is a blend of our barrels of Viré-Clessé – La Verchère, Saint-Véran – En Combe, Pouilly-Fuissé – En Carementrant , etc. that we think are not right enough to bear the name grande cuvée. But do not be misled, this is excellent wine far from the beaten tracks of ordinary plonk! It is ideal with goat cheese from the Mâconnais!"