Daniel Bouland Cote de Brouilly Cuvee Melanie 2023 060526OFFER capturing the vintage's exuberant red

capturing the vintage's exuberant red and black fruits—ripe cherries

Full bodied

7 km west of Nuits-Saint-Georges

tiny production brandies themselves

Daniel Bouland Cote de Brouilly Cuvee Melanie 2023 060526OFFER capturing the vintage's exuberant redCote de Brouilly wraps the flanks of an extinct volcano, and its blue tinted volcanic stone, the famous "terres bleues," gives Gamay a depth and mineral bite you won't find elsewhere in Beaujolais. For Cuvee Melanie, Daniel Bouland works a tiny, steep, south facing parcel of 70 plus year old vines high on the hill, just above Chateau Thivin. This is his richer, rounder, more decadent bottling: deep and dark fruited, but pulled taut by all that mineral