The Domaine de la Plaigne covers more than 15 hectares in the commune of Régnié-Durette, right in the heart of the Beaujolais wine region.
Wine-growers father and son, Gilles and Cécile represent the 4th generation, and since 2014 their son Victorien has joined them on the estate.
The estate produces five appellations from the GAMAY variety, which yields black grapes with white flesh…
from the sandy, clayey hillsides with a granitic sub-soil, located at an average altitude of 300 metres.
mainly from the “Côte du Py” area, with a sub-soil of igneous, and in particular basaltic rocks.
drawing its flavours from a clay/limestone topsoil with a sub-soil comprising friable pink granite rich in manganese dioxide soils.
from clay/limestone soils and a granitic sub-soil, at an altitude of 320 metres.
… and one appellation from the CHARDONNAY grape variety:
Beaujolais-Villages Whitecoming from a clay/granite soil, lying at an altitude of 300 metres.