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 : Grand climat of Mercurey. Clay-limestone terroir overlooking the village of Mercurey, below the Champs-Martin premier cru. Well-drained location. Vines planted in the 1990s.
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 15 months in Burgundy barrels. 30% new barrels.
