La Soufrandière Pouilly Vinzelles Les Quarts 2022 (6 Bottles) Mâcon, Burgundy

by Fine Wine Cellars

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This steep vineyard is the cradle of the Soufrandière estate and one of Mâcon’s most significant sites. Ploughed mostly by horse and farmed biodynamically since 2001, it produces the Bret brothers’ most profound wines. The Bajocian-era limestone soils are high in calcium carbonate and quartz and rich in iron (giving the rock an ochre tint).

There is also some granitic influence. Most of the vineyard sits on soil only 20 to 30cm deep before the roots hit the mother rock. In some sections, the topsoil can be scraped aside by hand to reveal the bare limestone. When matched with the appropriate viticulture, this results in wines with the mineral clout to cut through even the ripest, juiciest fruit.

What we love about this wine is that it’s so proudly Mâconnais—with layers of textured, voluminous fruit—yet it is also incredibly precise, with the poise, length and mineral freshness of the best Côte de Beaune whites. It helps that the mass-selection vines are aged between 50 and 80 years (with younger vine material at the site declassified into the straight Pouilly-Vinzelles).

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About La Soufrandière Wines

Our La Soufrandière estate, bought in 1947 by our paternal grandfather, is located in Vinzelles, in the Mâcon wine-producing region of South Burgundy. Here we work 4 ha of Pouilly-Vinzelles Climat “Les Quarts”, 0.55 ha of Pouilly-Vinzelles Climat “Les Longeays” and 1 ha of Mâcon-Vinzelles “Le Clos de Grand-Père”.

All our vines, between 33 and 80 years old, are magnificently located, facing East or South-East halfway up or at the top of the slopes of very red clay and “crinoidal” limestone, formed over 180 million years ago.

Since the 2016 season, we’ve been lucky enough to be able to operate around another 5 ha, already certified Organic.
Since the 2016 harvest, La Soufrandière can offer you wines from Saint-Véran “La Bonnode” (3.5 ha), Pouilly-Fuissé “Les Chatenays” (0.70 ha) in Vergisson, Pouilly-Fuissé “Les Vigneraies” (0.50 ha) on the slopes of the Roche de Solutré, and even a little Aligoté (0.30 ha).

To us, being a wine-grower today is not just being a grape producer, in the same way potatoes can be produced on an industrial basis, it’s not being a super driver of ever-heavier and ever-more polluting tractors, it’s not being an agrochemist, as a certain lobby would still like, however; nor is it being the winemaker who juggles with his magical cures to make up for some failure in growing the grape or quite simply to reassure himself, nor is it someone who thinks that drones will soon be able to replace the wine-grower among his vines.

To be in harmony with your vines and encourage practices that respect the life of the soil and the balance of the plant and the environment. Organic and biodynamic agriculture are the keys to this.

On our estate La Soufrandière, we have made the choice to work with the natural rhythms (the moon, planets), we regularly use infusions of plants to strengthen the vines against diseases, we carry out all work by hand (apart from a tractor used for tillage and treatment) to limit soil compaction.

La Soufrandière and Bret Brothers also stand for “human adventure”. This is why we favour human labour instead of using machines or pesticides (2 ha at La Soufrandière = 1 full-time job). Today, the Bret Team represents the equivalent of eight full-time people, excluding grape-pickers.

We are always very happy to be able to pass on our passion to our staff members, our trainees, or our customers who come to see us at the estate.

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