Domaine des Terres Dorees
The iconic Jean-Paul Brun started Terres Dorées in 1979 in the southern Beaujolais – a winemaker whose sole preoccupation is working to display the true terroir of his vineyards in his wines. He is uninterested in trends and generally eschews modern developments in favour of traditional methods. Jean-Paul began with 4 hectares of vineyards in Charnay in the southern Beaujolais – an area that is slightly warmer with limestone and clay soils as opposed to the the granite-rich cru villages in the northern Beaujolais. Today the Charnay estate has grown to more than thirty acres and Jean-Paul has also added fifteen hectares of parcels from the famed northern crus, including Fleurie and Brouilly.
Jean-Paul believes that the widely used carbonic maceration technique of modern Beaujolais convolutes and masks the true terroir of Beaujolais and instead opts for a more Burgundian approach for fermentation beginning with hand sorting of fruit, destemming and longer, slower ferments using only indigenous yeasts.