Bret Brothers Mâcon-Igé "Les Vernayes" dry white 2022

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Bret Brothers Mâcon-Igé "Les Vernayes" dry white 2022

RVF Guide to the Best Wines of France 2025 (Sept. 2024): 91/100. Profile is slightly thicker with a light lack of freshness in the mâcon-igé.

Comment from the domaine on the 2022 vintage: We are delighted and pleasantly surprised by the quality and freshness of 2022, despite an endless heatwave. Unfortunately, these heatwave vintages are repeating. 2022 is yet another example. Our vines are holding up so far, adapting. It must be said that we have been working in the vineyard for over 20 years to keep our soils alive, allowing the vines to withstand these increasingly aggressive temperatures and sunlight. In practice, this translates into partial and targeted plowing, respecting the organic life of the soils, sowing various cover crops that capture CO2 and nitrogen from the atmosphere to redistribute it to the soil, and maintaining higher foliage for more shade. Similarly, in the cellar, we refine our winemaking to retain maximum freshness, balance, and vibrancy in the wines while using low to almost no sulfites. The vine is a Mediterranean plant, robust and very rewarding if cared for properly. It will adapt more easily to climate change than many other plant species, even native ones, like the sessile or pedunculate oaks that are beginning to dry out in our regions, or the declining spruces from the nearby Jura or Alps. The environmental urgency is here! For 24 years, we have defended a living agriculture, never doubting our choices for organic or biodynamic practices. Happy wines ;-)

Technical sheet written by the domaine:

Fruit-driven, pleasurable wine!
Our Mâcon-Igé comes from the eponymous village, located in this long clay-limestone valley, starting in the South at La Roche-Vineuse and ending at Cruzille in the North, having passed through the villages of Verzé, Igé, Azé, and Bissy-La Mâconnaise).

Terroir: Beautiful plot on a 20% slope, facing East towards Mont-Blanc (often visible). Very nice soil, very limestone.

Vinification & Aging: Manual harvesting, whole cluster pressing, indigenous yeasts, 20% vinified and aged in barrels (228 l) for 11 months. 80% in stainless steel tank. Only sulfite input: 50mg/l added.

Aging Potential: 3 years

Vine Age: 20 to 30 years

Altitude: 280 meters


Certified organic wine by ECOCERT and biodynamic certified by DEMETER