A spicy, smoky Côte de Brouilly is now offered alongside the domaine’s ever-popular vivid, cherry-scented Beaujolais-Villages. The key to the latter`s enduring success lies in its sourcing of fruit from two villages with different but complementary styles: high altitude Le Perréon, bringing fine aromas, acidity and medium body, is matched with Quincié, which borders the crus of Brouilly and Régnié and yields more structured, denser fruit. This mix and match formula seems remarkably effective, drawing variably on each source according to vintage character in order to produce the most harmonious statement of the possibilities of the year. Vincent Pivot is now in charge, his father slowly easing into retirement.
