VARIETAL100% Pinot Noir.
TASTING NOTESColour: Dark ruby .
Nose: Red and black fruit, liquorice and vegetal aromas (undergrowth, mushroom).
Palate: Complex, this is a supple, fairly full-bodied wine. Ripe fruit and gamey aromas develop with age.
FOOD AND WINE PAIRINGThis wine will be a great companion to eggs or red meat with a Bourgogne Pinot Noir sauce, grilled lamb cutlets, donkey sausage, beef roast, poultry gizzards in salad or a good camembert cheese.
SERVING SUGGESTIONSServe at a temperature of 15-16°C (60°F).
AGEING POTENTIALThis wine can be enjoyed now, but can be kept for 5 to 10 years.
ORIGINThe village appellation is divided into two parts: to the north, covering Fixin and Brochon, and to the south, encompassing Premeaux-Prissey, Comblanchien and Corgoloin, the latter marking the boundary between the Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune vineyards. The total surface area is 165 hectares (only 10 hectares devoted to white wines). The hillsides of Comblanchien and Corgoloin are composed of hard Bathonian limestone, forming gentle slopes with brown soils poor in limestone at the top. Scree deposits create stony slopes which continue with brown soils overlying silts at the base. The terroirs of Fixin and Brochon, on the other hand, are underlain by reddish-brown piedmont soils mixed with limestone debris.
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 12 months in oak barrels (20% new oak). Lastly, the wine is bottled with very light filtration.
