{"product_id":"encules-gamay-raphael-beysang-natural-wine","title":"Encules Gamay 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnculés is 100% Gamay sourced from vines planted in 1955 in Theize, a village in the southern Beaujolais Pierres Dorées zone. The soils here are clay and limestone laced with the iron-rich golden stone the area is named for — a very different foundation from the granite of the northern Beaujolais Crus. 2018 was a warm vintage, and the wine shows it: dark-fruited and full of fleshy primary matter, with earthen notes from whole-cluster fermentation and exceptional fluidity on the palate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFermentation is spontaneous with native yeasts. The whole bunches macerate for approximately two weeks with minimal pumping over, then the wine ages in large old foudres of 25 to 30 hectoliters. No sulfites are added at any stage. No fining, no filtration. The wine is bottled in recycled one-liter bottles, a Beysang house practice across their range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaphael Beysang and Emélie Hurtubise operate under the name Lapins des Vignes out of Saint-Germain-Nuelles in the southern Beaujolais. They farm around seven hectares organically, supplementing minimal copper and sulfur treatments with biodynamic herbal preparations. Horse work is used for soil tillage. The Theize parcel is roughly 25 minutes north of their cellar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rapahel Beysang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36792629854360,"sku":"BEYSENCU18C","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/beysang-encules-france-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1630818699","url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/products\/encules-gamay-raphael-beysang-natural-wine","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}