About the vintage : An opulent vintage, marked by the high ripeness of the grapes, with great aging potential. Thanks to the rains at the end of August, the vines produced a harvest that was both abundant and of very high 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 terroir is located on the steepest part of the hillside. The soils are poor and very chalky. This produces a straightforward, refined, elegant, and very fragrant wine, as is often the case with Pinot grapes planted on “white soils.” Vines planted in the mid-1970s, cultivated using biodynamic methods.
Cultivation method : The vines are cultivated biodynamically. In the spring, we stimulated microbial life in our soils using dynamized preparations such as 500: horn manure, 500 P: prepared horn manure. During the growing season, in addition to our copper and sulfur treatments, we sprayed decoctions of horsetail, nettles, willow, and silica, which have energizing and protective properties that help the plants resist disease. Natural grass cover and mechanical cultivation. The vines are pruned using the single Guyot method with long canes and debudded every other bud, so that the bunches are beautiful and well-aerated.
Vinification : Grapes harvested by hand in crates, sorted on a sorting table and 100% destemmed, the whole berries are transported to the vats in small stainless steel wagons so as not to crush the raw material. Traditional Burgundy vinification in temperature-controlled open vats.
Aging : 15 months, including 12 months in oak (30% new barrels). Light filtration before bottling.
