GREGORY HOPPENOT FLEURIE LE CLOS DE L'AMANDIER Alternate Reds natural and uncompromising wine

natural and uncompromising wine

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GREGORY HOPPENOT FLEURIE LE CLOS DE L'AMANDIER Alternate Reds natural and uncompromising wineLe Clos De lAmandier is a Hoppenot monopole, just three quarters of a hectare of 25 year old vines located at the southeast end of the Ponci climat. Like many of Hoppenots plots, this is also steeply sloped (30% gradient). It faces south to southwest, and its highest point reaches almost 400m elevation. The soils are a mixture of granitic sand and shallow, stony clay overlying hard granite bedrock. Unusually for this grower, half of these vines are