Located in the heart of the Côte Chalonnaise, one of the oldest terroirs of Burgundy, Domaine de la Bressande offers upper quality wines with finesse, pleasure and elegance. The vineyard estate extends around 35 hectares over the villages of Mercurey and Rully.
RULLY 2018

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100% Chardonnay.

Color: Pale gold.
Nose: Floral notes of hawthorn and acacia, with a hint of citrus.
Palate: A pleasant wine with woody and floral notes, a touch of lemon and a rich finale offering a nice sensation of roundness in the mouth.

This wine will be perfect paired with charcuterie platters (ham or pâtés) or sea food (scallop-shells, salmon). It can also be drunk with hot first courses, such as quiches and pies, or with dry cheeses (goat’s cheese for instance).

Serve ideally between 12° and 14° C / 54° and 57°F.

4 to 6 years.

Rully is a communal appellation of the Côte Chalonnaise, in the South of Burgundy, made up of 23 Premiers Crus climats.

White Rullys spread on a 246 ha area - including 69 ha of Premiers Crus - whereas red Rullys are produced on a 121 ha area of which 28 are Premiers Crus.

Rully was named after a rich roman, Rubilius, who built a villa and founded the village during the roman occupation. It was at first named Rubiliacum and it evolved through the years to become the current Rully.

The Domaine de la Bressande extend on the villages of Mercurey and Rully, Rully Village and Premier Cru appellations.

The total white Rully vineyard area is covering 2.6 hectares spread over 3 plots.

- Vineyard area: 2,6 ha (4.95 acres)
- Vines ages: 28 ans
- Soil: Sol argilo-calcaire

The grapes were pressed in a pneumatic press to squeeze out their juice. This juice was left to settle at cold temperatures between 16 and 24 hours maximum in order to remove impurities. The alcoholic fermentation took place in vats to allow for a better control of temperatures, key element in our search for pure color and bright aromas.

Then, just before the fermentation ended, the wine was casked into oak barrels to age on its lees for several months. Actually, it is still ageing at the moment and until the malolactic fermentation is over, we are stirring it on occasions (about twice a month).

It is quite hardly to sum up the vintage 2018 in a few words! Winter, grey and humid was followed by a capricious spring, subject to frosts and alternating times of sunshine and storms on an almost daily basis from May to the mid-June, making this period particularly stressful for our people in the vineyards.

Then came an incredible time of nice weather, hot, very hot and even heatwave periods until the end of… October!

Another particular vintage which looks like no other! As rainfalls episodes were particularly localized, we had to deal with very different degree of ripeness from a plot to another, depending of the water volume received by each vineyard.

In 2018, as in other French wine region, quality and quantity were very satisfactory on our whole vineyard and were are very pleased with the quality of the vinified juices currently ageing in 228 L. Burgundian barrels in our cellars.

Harvest took place on our vineyards between the end of August (27th) and the 18th of September under a hot and persistent autumn sun. Even if the weather was very nice, the harvest period was very long and demanding in the vineyards as well as in the winery, due to the particularly different stages of ripeness. This is, without doubt, what one will retain from this harvest: so different ripeness degrees and so very different harvesting time from a village to another and even from a parcel to another in the same vineyard!

White wines were mostly harvested first in order to keep a nice acidity on this particularly solar vintage.