VARIETAL
100% Chardonnay from old vines (Vieilles Vignes).
Average age of the vines: 50 years (the youngest: 45 years old – the oldest: 60 years old).
TASTING NOTES
- Golden white colour with emerald highlights, limpid, and bright.
- The nose is honest and frank, discreet, elegant, with citrus aromas, mineral and woody touch.
- Fresh and delicately wooded palate. The structure is elegant. A well-balanced acidity brings the wine of tonicity, the flavours are fruity, with a discreet touch of vanilla.
FOOD AND WINE PAIRING
Will be perfect with a warm cheese tart, a poultry salad, fresh pasta, pig’s feet, pâté in pastry crust, or fish and chips.
SERVING SUGGESTIONS
Serve at a temperature of around 14° C. (57°F.)
AGEING POTENTIAL
Enjoy now or in the next 3 years.
ORIGIN
The area which constitutes the Bourgogne appellation spreads across 384 villages of the Yonne, Côte d’Or, Saône et Loire, and Rhône departments. Starting in the North, from the region of Chablis and Auxerre, to the South in the region of Macon, and passing through the Côte d’Or and the Côte Chalonnaise, the Bourgogne wines stem from very diverse terroirs.
VINIFICATION AND MATURING
The grapes are harvested by hand. After pressing the grapes, a fining and cold settling of 48 hours at 8°-10°C is applied.
A racking is then occurred to separate the clear juice from the bad lies. The wine is then placed into thermo-regular stainless steel tanks for the alcoholic fermentation at low temperature (16° to 18°C. / 60-64°F.).
Maturing process takes place on barrels (20% of the total blend on oak: 50% new barrels) and on stainless steel tank (80% on goods finest lies).
Vintage : 2021
Nature certainly set a challenge for the winegrower and the winemaker with this vintage. It began with very warm temperatures at the end of February which led to an early bud break.
The historic frost in April then destroyed young shoots that had emerged too early, significantly affecting the future harvest. Changing weather continued to characterize the vintage through to the harvests. There were spells of rain from May to mid-August, obliging winegrowers to be constantly on the alert.
The only periods of relative calm were during flowering, which took place in good conditions for the formation of the future fruit, and the véraison (color change), which benefited from the return of the sun from mid-August. The vagaries of the weather contributed to the development of outbreaks of disease, which were contained thanks to the tireless efforts of our winegrowers. In spite of this, considerable sacrifices had to be made to ensure a high level of quality, and rigorous sorting of the fruit in the vineyard and on arrival at the winery was necessary.
This vintage also required a major technical effort. The vinifications had to be carried out with meticulous attention and precision. We took particular care over the extraction of coloring matter, the balance of the structure and the aromatic expression of our red wines, and of the freshness, balance of acidity and aromatic potential of our white wines.
From the first tastings, this vintage presented excellent flavour and aroma potential, and the balance of acidity was contained. The wines are less sunny, revealing a more moderate character, lighter in terms of alcohol and in tannic structure.
These are wines that will assert their personalities by offering a diverse palette of flavours and textures, like the growing season.