Carine Joubert represents the fifth generation to lead this estate located in the village of Quincié and centred around the Brouilly vineyards. Her grandfather was the founder and promoter of the same appellation, and when Carine read her great-grandfather’s notebooks describing the hardship of farming between 1920 and 1936, she was convinced that she had to carry on the family work and quit her urban job in 2016 to follow in her father’s footsteps and form a hedonistic and complementary duo. Today they cultivate 11 hectares of vineyards, mainly in Brouilly but also in Fleurie, Morgon and Chiroubles. Since the 1980s, the father, Marcel, had followed the practices of the group of Marcel Lapierre, Chanudet, Foillard, Thévenet, Descombes and converted the vineyards to organic farming and quickly dispensed with the use of sulphur dioxide. Today the father, who is over 70 years old, jokes that he has become his daughter’s trainee and they fine-tune their work to reveal the specificity of each terroir, with a beautiful heritage of old vines, in an adjusted vinification, using the experience and knowledge of the vineyards of the wise trainee. Carine doesn’t shy away from using a little sulphur in the bottling when she thinks it’s necessary and favours ageing in vats to bring out the velvety, light side of Gamay, while her father produced firmer wines in barrels. A cosy and greedy house, where gargantuan cheese and sausage boards always accompany a tasting, confirming the festive atmosphere of Beaujolais!
The wines
Vinification without the addition of sulphur dioxide, from vines between 20 and 100 years old, ageing in used vats and barrels, addition of sulphur dioxide at bottling according to the wines.
Beaujolais à l’Ancienne A fluid, fruity style that celebrates the Beaujolais of our ancestors.
Gamaret A unique blend of Gamay and Reichensteiner, an open and fruity wine with a thirst for flavour
Fleurie Vieilles vignes Old vines on schist soil with broken rocks
Brouilly Vieilles vignes les grès roses Vines between 50 and 70 years old in a terroir of gore, a decomposed granite of volcanic origin
Morgon Côte du Py Vines between 70 and 8 years old in one of Morgon’s most famous terroirs, rich in iron and manganese (poor blue-green stone)
