Clos Bateau

Clos Bateau 'The new kids of Beaujolais' Our -Sylvie & Thierry- adventure started in 2019 when we moved to our domaine in Lantignié, Beaujolais (France). It's a small, 5,5Ha, nature-friendly domaine. With almost all the vineyards and land (total 7ha) around our domain we are creating a great ecosystem here. To increase biodiversity in our vineyards we planted over 100 fruit & nut trees last year. We want to work with nature, not against. To stay in this mindset, in the vineyard we work with a homeopathic touch, where we collect plants and herbs around the estate to make plant based tea infusions that will help the vines to become stronger and healthier. We also work by the moon, this results in our choices; when to bottle/press how long we will do the maceration and so on. On a meadow at the end of our vineyards we have our sheeps (who are a part of our team and going to help us eat the herbs in the vineyard during wintertime and give the soil food in return). The most important is that we respect nature, from vineyard to bottle. In the winery, we only use indigenous yeasts (so they wine is fermented spontaneously), no filtration and no fining agents for our wines. We work with the least amount of intervention as possible, creating Vins Vivants!