De Aureo Spirito is a brotherhood formed by owners of great historic houses of Burgundy.
Their coats of arms attest of the ancestral traditions of our region.
With subtle maturing, the wines are produced in limited quantities.
BOURGOGNE PINOT NOIR 2016
VIEILLI EN FÛT DE CHENE

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2016  

100% Pinot Noir.

The Burgundy appellation covers 384 communes in the Yonne, Côte d’Or, Saône et Loire and Rhône départements. Beginning in the Chablis and Auxerrois region in the north, stretching south to the Macon area through Côte d’Or and the Côte Chalonnaise, the Burgundy Appellation comes from a great diversity of soils.

Colour: ruby red with ochre tints.
Nose: nutmeg notes which blend with sweet plum and cherry pits.
Palate: flexible and round with softened tannins for perfect freshness.

Ideal served with a plate of grilled meats, coq au vin, beef bourguignon, and Camembert.

Like all red Burgundies of this quality, this wine should be served at a cellar temperature of about 15 ° C.

This wine can be consumed now or kept in a cellar for the next 3 years.

The grapes are hand-harvested and the bunches de-stemmed before fermentation. During 12 days of alcoholic fermentation, the “cap” is punched down daily to ensure the proper extraction of colour and flavour from the skins and the juice is pumped over.  The fermentation finished, the wine matures in oak for 6 months for 50% and in tank for 50%.

It's been a long time since winegrowers had not had to bear a long hard way to give birth to a new vintage. During the months of April, May and June 2016, they suffered the dramatic consequences of freezing, hail falls, downy mildew attacks, fears of powdery mildew, etc. Many are those who suffered very hard from these vagaries of the weather, to the point of sometime wishing that year ends as soon as possible and doubt of the future. Finally, July and then August and September, with the full sun, made forget a little of the trouble and return the morale in the vineyard.

In Burgundy, during the harvest, the vines were green but a lot, however, hid under their foliage, a lack of grapes. Burgundy this year still produces a small crop, even very small for some names (Chablis). But for saved vineyards and those who could enjoy a "push", the grapes were at the rendezvous, in good proportion. When the winemaker, this year of 2016, brought all the necessary care to this vine battered by successive storms and managed to bring the fruit to mature, so wines are of good quality. They are concentrated, with enough silky tannin, and have an acidic balance of good quality

It is therefore a year of "winegrower and winemaker", which will make a qualitative difference. This turbulence will not have been enough to begin our morale and we are proud to introduce you to the vintage 2016.