With a deep purple hue and mauve and milky highlights, it exudes a smoky, even reductive character, yet upon decanting reveals the awakened sincerity of a rustic expression where the fruit’s juiciness meets the freshness of green spices and earthy notes: graphite, soot, burnt garlic, peony, strawberry, marshmallow and cornelian cherry, cumin, and cherry stem. On the palate, it weaves a voluptuous tapestry of lightness and vitality, featuring the lively vibrancy of the aromas, the velvety richness of the texture, and the crisp finesse of the structure.
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Eye
A Burlat wine with mauve and milky hues
Nose
Smoky on the nose, it reveals, upon decanting, juicy fruit and the freshness of spices and earthy notes: graphite, soot, burnt garlic, peony, strawberry, marshmallow, cornelian cherry, cumin, and cherry stem.
Palate
It weaves together lightness and vitality into a sensuous tapestry, featuring the lively vibrancy of the aromas, the velvety richness of the texture, and the crisp finesse of the structure.
Serve
At 16–18 °C
Bettane & Desseauve
Rated estate (2026 guide) 3*Stars (High-quality production, setting the standard in its sector)
About the estate:
Gilles and Christine founded their winery in 1990. It gradually expanded throughout the 1990s and was certified organic in 2002. As a disciple of Michel Grisard, Gilles adopted biodynamic farming practices, earning Demeter certification in 2018. The estate operates like a cooperative where everyone is committed to doing good work and making good wine. Four principles: no subsidies, soil worked with animal power, everything is done by hand, and everyone is well paid. Natural-style wines, more ethereal than ostentatious, with vintages featuring iconic labels.
RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France
Wine rated (2025 guide) 90/100 (2023 vintage)
Rated estate (2026 guide) 3*Stars (These represent the pinnacle of French winemaking. The finest terroirs cultivated by the greatest winemakers. Tasting their wine is always a magical experience)
About the estate:
The son of a factory worker, Gilles Berlioz is a self-taught and contented winemaker. Trained as a landscape architect, he started out in 1990 with 0.8 hectares in the Chignin area, with the help of his partner Christine. Today he owns 6.5 hectares, plowed by horse, which were converted to organic farming in 2005 and then to biodynamic farming in 2020. Anthroposophy is at the heart of the estate. Gilles Berlioz must be the only winemaker in our guide who makes decisions in the vineyard or cellar alongside his employees and who shares his workforce with two other estates… Hence the rather unique term “shared estate.” Of the three children, it is Jeanne, the youngest, who is set to take the reins. From the simple Chignin to the Mondeuse, including the exceptional Chignin-Bergeron wines made from single-vineyard selections, all the wines offer expressions of striking depth of flavor. The aging process is of biblical simplicity, with no oak. Discerning wine lovers snap up these masterfully crafted wines, which are produced in very limited quantities. The welcome at the estate is warm. An essential destination that has shown the way for an entire region, for an entire generation.
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