Fixin are only made from Pinot Noir grapes.
- Density: 10000 plants/hectare.
- Pruning: Cordon de Royat.
- Harvested by hand.
- Yield: 40 hl/hectare.
- Dark ruby colour.
- The nose nuances express the blackcurrant, the raspberry, the blackberry together with the typical animal notes of the wines of the
Côte-de-Nuits.
- On the palate the wine is powerful, rich, concentrated. Flavours of little berries as blackcurrant, raspberry. Tannic and very well balanced, spicy, delicately woody. Nice persistency.
To be served with good cuts of meat such as braised pork, beef rib steak with parsley, or poultry stews including their Indian variants (curry, tandoori). However, the delicacy of its aromas and of its finish also make it a candidate for more inventive combinations such as paella, tapas, or spring-rolls. As far as cheese is concerned, it suits the delicacy of a French Chaource, the lusciousness of a Jura Comté, or the strong flavours of a Burgundian Époisses.
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.