With a burlat color and milky purple highlights, it has a smoky, even reductive character, but when decanted, it reveals the awakened sincerity of a rustic expression where the juiciness of the fruit responds to the freshness of green spices and country notes: graphite, soot, burnt garlic, peony, strawberry, marshmallow and cornelian cherry, cumin, and cherry stem. The palate combines lightness and vitality to create a voluptuous picture, with the delicious tonicity of the aromatics, the velvety fleshiness of the texture, and the crisp finesse of the structure all playing their part.
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Eye
Burlat color with mauve and milky highlights
Nose
Smoky on the nose, it reveals juicy fruit and the freshness of spices and earthy notes when decanted: graphite, soot, burnt garlic, peony, strawberry, marshmallow and cornelian cherry, cumin, and cherry stem.
Mouth
It composes a voluptuous picture between lightness and vitality, featuring the delicious tonicity of the aroma, the velvety fleshiness 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, serving as a benchmark in its sector)
About the estate:
Gilles and Christine established their estate in 1990. It gradually expanded during the 1990s and was certified organic in 2002. As a disciple of Michel Grisard, Gilles introduced biodynamic farming, obtaining Demeter certification in 2018. The estate operates like a cooperative, where everyone is committed to doing a good job and making good wine. Four principles: no subsidies, soil worked with animal traction, everything is done by hand, everyone is well paid. Natural wines, more ethereal than ostentatious, with cuvées bearing emblematic labels.
RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France
Wine rating (2025 guide) 90/100 (2023 vintage)
Rated estate (2026 guide) 3 stars (These represent the excellence of French vineyards. The best terroirs cultivated by the greatest winemakers. Tasting their wine is always a magical moment.)
About the estate:
The son of a laborer, Gilles Berlioz is a self-taught and happy winemaker. Trained as a landscaper, he started out in 1990 with 0.8 hectares in the Chignin area, helped by his partner Christine. Today, he has 6.5 hectares, plowed by horse, 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 with his employees and who shares his workforce with two other properties... Hence the rather unique term "shared estate." Of the three children, it is Jeanne, the youngest, who is set to take over the reins. From simple Chignin to Mondeuse, via the exceptional Chignin-Bergeron wines vinified from selected plots, all the wines offer expressions of striking depth of flavor. The wines are aged with biblical simplicity, without wood. Discerning wine lovers snap up these masterfully crafted wines, which are available in very limited quantities. The welcome at the estate is warm. This is an essential destination that has shown the way for an entire region and an entire generation.
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