Côtes Catalanes Clos des Fées 100 Phrases pour éventails Hervé Bizeul 2022

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Côtes Catalanes Clos des Fées 100 Phrases pour éventails Hervé Bizeul 2022

The wine

This poetically named cuvée, a reference to the poetry collection Cent phrases pour éventails by French poet Paul Claudel, brings together two of France’s most exacting winemakers. Hervé Bizeul, a former sommelier and journalist, settled in Roussillon where he meticulously crafts wines that reach summits of uncompromising precision at Clos des Fées. And Jean-Yves Bizot, who took over his family’s Côte de Nuits estate at just 27 and has since established it as one of Burgundy’s most rare and sought-after addresses, disrupting established codes in the region.
Produced entirely from Pinot Noir under the IGP Côtes Catalanes appellation, this cuvée reflects their shared ambition. In fact, Hervé Bizeul invited his friend Jean-Yves Bizot to his winery in Roussillon to oversee the vinification of these casks.
The result is an intensely aromatic, fruit-driven and elegant wine that tastes unmistakably of talent!

Before settling down amid the vines, walls and soil of the Clos des Fées, Hervé Bizeul's peregrinations had been many, flitting around the wine business and the world in general. As a sommelier, as a journalist… but most of all, as a son of this hard ground, with a real pride in Roussillon. It was one day in the late 1990s, looking out onto this desert of scrubland, with its dry stone walls and vines planted in pick-hacked holes amid the green oaks with their twisted branches, that he decided to take his passion for wine to its logical extreme by becoming a wine grower himself. Thanks to his hard work in the vines – but also through his formidable enthusiasm for selling and promoting his wine with a talent for forging links that is somewhat uncommon among growers, who enjoy the solitary company of their vines and can be uneasy with commercial relationships – Bizeul would be quick to find success. And this success would enable him to live comfortably and develop his domain by expanding it through the purchase of parcels of land (both already planted and awaiting plantation), hiring workers, buying increasingly advanced equipment and continuing to tour the wine shows of France and the world, proudly flying the flag of his own wines as well as all the others in his region. But if you think Hervé Bizeul has retired his pen, then think again: today, he is among the most prolific contributors to be found in the blogosphere.