Varietal100% Pinot Noir.
Tasting notesColour: Sustained, bright cherry red.
Nose: Cinnamon, cloves and Morello cherries, with hints of liquorice and blond tobacco.
Palate: Full-bodied and persistent. Furs, spices and truffles. This wine is powerful and complex, full-bodied and solid. This is perhaps where Pinot finds its best harmony between tannins and roundness.
Food and wine pairingThe perfect accompaniment to dishes with a savoury sauce, roasted game, roasted and grilled red meats, cheeses.
Serving suggestionsServe ideally between 15°C and 16°C / 59-61°F.
Ageing potentialThis wine can be kept easily between 8 and 10 years.
OriginsA Côte de Nuits appellation which takes its name from the town of Nuits-Saint-Georges. The appellation extends over 304 hectares, with 143 hectares classified as Premier Cru. It produces almost only red wines, but some white wines can be found (<1% of the production). Nuits-Saint-Georges is one of those magical names that visitors recite like a rosary.
Known the whole world over, Nuits-Saint-Georges has the original profile of a genuine wine village, but on the scale of a small town. Half way between Dijon and Beaune, and with an eastern exposure, the vines of Nuits-Saint-Georges extend for 6 kilometres and cover 160 hectares of the village appellation.
The local variation in soils, exposure and location produce a great diversity of terroir. The area as a whole is bisected by the little Meuzin river and its valley, and by the village itself.
Vinification and maturingThe grapes are collected in small ventilated crates, then painstakingly sorted at a table. Next, the grapes are entirely destemmed but not crushed (they remain whole) and transferred by gravity into a wooden vat. Maceration lasts around 3 weeks, with more-or-less frequent cap punching. The wine is aged for 14 to 16 months in oak barrels (20% new oak). Lastly, the wine is bottled with very light filtration.
