100% Pinot Noir.
Colour: deep ruby red.
Bouquet: the nuances on the nose express blackcurrant, raspberry, blackberry and animal notes typical of Côte-de-Nuits wines.
Palate: the wine is powerful, rich and concentrated, with aromas of berries such as blackcurrant and raspberry. Tannic and very well-balanced, spicy, delicately oaky. Nice persistence.
This wine goes well with cold meats, pasta, white or smoked ham, couscous, beef in sauce, grilled meat, roast chicken, Camembert or Brie cheese.
Serve at a temperature of 16 to 17°C. (60-62°F.).
This wine is ready to be tasted now but can be kept in the cellar between 3 and 5 years.
With the vineyard of Marsannay, Fixin is the most northern wine village of the Côte de Nuits. It is a production of red wines mainly of which the Premiers Crus are famous. There is also some white Fixin.
- The soils are limestone containing a few traces of marl.
- South-Eastern and eastern exposure.
- Soft slope.
- Altitude between 270 and 360 m.
Grapes were hand picked and sorted at their arrival at the winery. They were then totaly destemmed and placed in vat for 4 to 6 days cold maceration (with temperature maintened at 8-10°C. / 46-50°F.). Then came 12 days of fermentation in tank, with pumping over and punching the cap twice a day. The wine is then placed in oak barrels (30% new oak) to age for several months on fine lees.