Retour Château Thivin - Côte de Brouilly - Zaccharie - Rouge - 2022
COUNTRY/REGION: Beaujolais
DESIGNATION: AOP Côte de Brouilly
COLOR: Red
VINTAGE: 2022
GRAPE VARIETY: 100% Gamay
ALCOHOL: 13.5 vol.
CONTENT: 75 cl
The tasting
Color An intense red.
Nose Black cherry and stone fruit aromas.
Palate Tannic and full-bodied, with beautifully ripe flavors of fruit, this cuvée has great tension, delivering a very fresh, long-lasting taste
The sommelier's advice
Temperature Serve between 16 and 18°C.
Food Charcuterie, Beaujolais sausage, roast squab and its cooking juices.
Cellar ageing From now until 2035, and even longer for enthusiasts.
The estate and the wine
The estate and the wine Château Thivin, a three-star marvel in the RVF Guide, is a Beaujolais treasure, distinguished with elegance. Even Robert Parker lists it among the world's top 20 wines for quality-to-price ratio. This acclaim stems from their wines' flawless style, which perfectly encapsulates the lush essence of Gamay grapes.

The Geoffray family's crowning achievement, their Zaccharie cuvée, stands as a proud emblem of excellence. It's widely regarded as one of the most captivating and complete Gamays, a worthy rival to the grandest of Burgundies. Each vintage enchants, prompting our Committee to muse that with eyes closed, one might easily mistake it for a Gevrey-Chambertin or Vosne-Romanée...
Wine The 2022 red Côte de Brouilly Cuvée Zaccharie is a wine that reveals itself with restraint, hinting at a fuller potential with a few more years of aging. While patience is key, the hallmarks of a major success are already present: ripe, concentrated aromas of stone fruits and black cherries, a meaty and tannic structure that’s elegantly wrapped, and a wine carried by intense tension and freshness. The finish is sublime, the experience magical. This timeless, age-worthy wine is set to dazzle once again in a few years and will continue to impress over the next 15 years.
Vinification Hand-harvested, aged for 9 months, 1/10th in new barrels and the rest in barrels aged 1 to 5 years.
AWARDS
AWARDS 3-star rating in the Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France 2024 (RVF)
Domaine rated 4 stars in the Guide Bettane et Desseauve 2024
Cuvée rated 93-95/100 by our Committee!