GREGORY HOPPENOT FLEURIE LE CLOS DE L'AMANDIER Alternate Reds Reigniting our own passion for

Reigniting our own passion for exploration

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detail in viticulture including bunch thinning to reduce crop load &

A demonstration on how shifts in making and viticulture with a climate change overlay are seeing wines of approachability come from regions historically seen as very tough

GREGORY HOPPENOT FLEURIE LE CLOS DE L'AMANDIER Alternate Reds Reigniting our own passion forLe Clos De lAmandier is a Hoppenot monopole, just three quarters of a hectare of 25 year old vines located at the southeast end of the Ponci climat. Like many of Hoppenots plots, this is also steeply sloped (30% gradient). It faces south to southwest, and its highest point reaches almost 400m elevation. The soils are a mixture of granitic sand and shallow, stony clay overlying hard granite bedrock. Unusually for this grower, half of these vines are