2019 Marc Delienne La Jacarde

WINEMAKER: Marc Delienne
REGION: Beaujolais, FR
VARIETAL: Chardonnay
VITICULTURE: Certified Organic/Biodynamic

Stoked we got our hands on this. 100% chardonnay from Marc Delienne, bottled by the one and only Jean-François Ganevat. Generous and insanely complex. Rare, too. Only 24 bottles made it over here.

In 2012 Marc Delienne quit his day job to move to Provence to work with Eloi Durrbach of Domaine Trevallion. He then worked with Alain Graillot at Domaine de Fa, while searching for a vineyard to call his own. It was Graillot that insisted that Delienne look for a site in Beaujolais. In 2015 the dream was realised with the purchase of Chateau de l’Abbaye, in the heart of Fleurie.

Domaine Marc Delienne is located in the south-eastern corner of Fleurie, where vines stretch down in to ancient granitic loam soils. Here where it is hotter and more exposed than on the steeper rocky soils of La Madone, Delienne has abandoned goblet training, in favour of trellising to provide shade during the warmer months. He has achieved organic certification for all his plots. Delienne restricts the amounts of SO2 given to all wines to less than 10ppm at bottling.