Chénas: Domaine Matray Futs de Chene

Product Type: Wine - Red

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Much sought after, Chénas, the rarest of the Beaujolais Crus, is a generous cellaring wine with a wonderfully soft mouthfeel. The robe is ruby with garnet tints; the aromas are floral with peony at the fore. This cuvée was matured in barrels for 8 months and sets itself apart with its finesse and complexity.

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Much sought after, Chénas, the rarest of the Beaujolais Crus, is a generous cellaring wine with a wonderfully soft mouth-feel. The robe is ruby with garnet tints; the aromas are floral with peony at the fore. This cuvée was matured in barrels for 8 months and sets itself apart with its finesse and complexity.

Wine Information

Vintage	2024
Region	Beaujolais
Appellation	Ch énas
Style	Red
Producer	Domaine Matray
Grapes	100% Gamay
Pairing	Pork
Keeping	Drink within 3 to 10 years of bottling.
Vinification	All the grapes are picked manually as the Beaujolais semi carbonic winemaking process requires that the bunches be whole. Pressing is after 10 days of vatting.
Viticulture	Uses High Environmental Value Farm products in production
Bottle	75cl
Volume	13.0%

Region and Appellation Information

Region – Beaujolais

Offering a deep ruby red, Beaujolais is more than just a wine; it's an agricultural region that produces as many as 2.3 billion bottles of red wine per year. This French wine is renowned for its fruity taste and robust structure and has been popular since the 19th century. Beaujolais wines are also rich in pigments of carotenoids which give the wines their characteristic dark purple hue. The wine is typically made from the Gamay grape which is one of the darkest of red grapes.

Appellation – Chénas

Located in northern Beaujolais between Juliénas and Moulin-à-Vent, Chénas is the smallest of the ten Beaujolais Crus, producing full-bodied red wines with floral notes of rose and peony alongside red fruit. Made up of approximately 290 hectares, it exclusively harvests the Gamay grape, like most of the Beaujolais region. Grown largely on granite and sandy soils, the best examples age gracefully, gaining a silky refinement. Its name derives from the oak trees (chênes) that once covered the area, and it remains one of the lesser-known Crus.

Domaine Matray

From a winemaking family spanning 5 generations, Lilian Matray, his wife Sandrine and his daughter Célia work the family estate.

The estate buildings are in Juliénas, a charming little Beaujolais village, while the estate’s vines grow on 11 hectares of slopes that are not only in the Juliénas appellation area. The variety of the soils give the very typical, fruity Beaujolais aromas and flavours of each specific appellation.