The domain's short story
"The Domaine de Rotisson is located in the southern Beaujolais, in Saint-Germain-Nuelles. The term "rotisson" refers to a small clearing where the ancients planted vines to make wine. The place called Rotisson refers to these ancestral practices, and includes a number of different parcels allowing to produce a plurality of wines and to let the terroir express itself. The estate was really created after the second world war, and was managed by the Peillon family for several decades, until Didier Pouget decided to buy it in 1998. He profoundly modified the management of the vineyard, allowing for greater mechanization, and decided to reduce bulk sales as much as possible, giving priority to bottle sales. In 2021, the estate was taken over by two entrepreneurial families, eager to continue the work done so far and with the ambition to take the estate even further, both in terms of quality in the vineyards and in the wines (e.g. organic conversion), and in terms of quantity with the creation of a trading division and a plan to significantly increase the cultivated surface area over the next five years.
