Jean-Paul Brun Terres Dorees "FRV 100" Sparkling Gamay NV

The name "FRV100" is a play on the word “effervescent” in French (French speakers, try to sound out the letters and the numbers bit-by-bit!).  The name speaks to the character of this wine: a playful bottle from an otherwise very serious region.   This off-dry, méthode ancestrale rosé is anything but standard. Hand-harvested fruit is destemmed and fermented in vat until it reaches around 6% alcohol. It's then lightly filtered and bottled, finishing its fermentation with indigenous yeasts in bottle. The result is a light-bodied, gently sparkling, gently sweet, low-ABV vin de soif.  The vintage never appears on the label (there is no allowance for sparkling Gamay in Beaujolais) but it is always a single-vintage wine.