About the vintage : An opulent vintage, marked by the high ripeness of the grapes and great aging potential. Thanks to the rains at the end of August, the vines produced a bountiful harvest of excellent quality. The whites are ripe, rich, and powerful. Tasted a few months after bottling, the wines tend to mellow, retaining their rich fruitiness and developing a slight toasty and mineral reduction, typical of great Chardonnays. The Pinot Noirs are very ripe, with a deep ruby color and abundant tannic structure: in some vintages, they sometimes take on southern accents!
Terroir : This is a carefully selected blend from two Mercurey vineyards, each with quite different characteristics.
The grapes for the Automne cuvée come mainly from the Vaux plot, where the vines are quite old, perfectly exposed, and produce dense, fleshy grapes, resulting in a deep, rich cuvée. The blend is made with a smaller proportion of grapes from our Les Montelons plot, located on the Mercurey plateau, opposite Rully. Fairly high altitude, cool temperatures, clay soils. Fresher, crisper grapes. The Le Printemps cuvée is the reverse proportion.
Cultivation method : The vines are grown organically. Mechanical soil cultivation. They are pruned using the single Guyot method with long canes and every other bud removed, resulting in beautiful, well-spaced bunches.
Vinification : Grapes harvested by hand in crates, sorted on a sorting table and 100% destemmed, the whole berries are conveyed directly into vats so as not to crush the raw material. Traditional Burgundy vinification in temperature-controlled open vats.
Aging : Aged for 10 months in wooden vats
