Tasted in Bully with Fabien Romany, 16 March 2022.
Domaine Aurélie & Fabien Romany
Chemin de Saint-Barnabé
69210 Bully
Tel: +33 6 70 39 81 05
www.aurelie-fabien-romany
“We’ve had vines for a long time but sold to the co-op. We’ve been vinifying ourselves for 3 years – 2019 was the first vintage.
“Our main market, right now, is France. We began by selling some of our wine in bulk – it was necessary because the change here coincided with covid – but we’ve gathered some good contacts for export now.
“We are working 15 hectares, practically all of which is organic – we began certification in 2010 while still with the co-op – so selling organic grapes. We just have the small parcel of chardonnay which is in the final year of conversion. All our grapes are harvested by hand and our vinifications are semi-carbonic.”
Fabien on 2021 & 2020:
“2021 here we didn’t have that much frost and 2020 had a lot of dryness – so in the end we had similar volumes. We waited for the mildew and treated with Bordeaux-mixture but in the end, the mildew showed itself in only a couple of places.”
The wines…
Very classy wines – indeed for their labels, here are some great wines, ones that will be worth your time to make a special search – well done!
2021 Beaujolais Vin Bio
Ooh – that’s really aromatic. Mouth-filling, a hint round, modestly velour texture from a small, micro-grained tannin – open, fresh, and cliché Beaujolais. Delicious – you will want to take a second glass!
2020 Beaujolais Le Moulin
60-year-old vines from a granite soil – whole bunch with elevage in tank, bottled in August.
A creamy roundness here – I would have guessed a little well-judged barrel-elevage – but there’s none. Mouth-filling again – a bit more peps and depth to this flavour – again a creamy style to this fruit. Super finishing energy too – that’s excellent Beaujolais if a little less cliché in style!
This a ‘natural’ wine – sulfur only introduced for the bottling, elevage with an inert atmosphere, 50% older (2-3 years) barrels. These vines of 40-years-old and others dating from 1918 which planted by the grandmother at the end of the war … 30% destemmed.
There’s an admirable purity to this nose, still a roundness to the presentation but all good! Extra depth and class to this fruit flavour – open super texture too. Layers of deliciousness. Bravo!
This 100% destemmed
Lots of colour. A deeper colour and a more inky depth of aroma too. This wine showing a little creamy oak. Large-scaled, framed by ultra-fine tannin. Slowly mouth-watering length. That’s another great Beaujolais. For my taste, I’d be taking the previous one as it shows less of the elevage – but your mileage will vary – so why not take both!
And a blanc:
2020 Bourgogne Chardonnay Les Gouttes
Name of the lieu-dit. Chardonnay in the commune of Saint-Germain – ‘Clays that have mainly lost their limestone.’
A more modest width of aroma – it’s mainly the spice of the oak that (I think) I’m smelling. Nicely incisive, mobile, cool fruit, growing some salinity. Clean finishing – not a wine of rigour. I could happily drink this when the oak has lessened – in 2 years or a little more – excellent.