NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES

Color: Deep purple color.

Nose: Often features rose and liquorice, powerful and rich, rather on red fruits (cherry, strawberry and blackcurrant) during its youth, then on leather, truffle and fur when mature.

Palate: The palate is round and vigorous with well present and racy tannins.

To be enjoyed with a meat of character, roast lamb, rib of beef or duck breast. At maturity it is ideal with furry game. Prefer soft cheeses, Époisses, Langres or Soumaintrain.

Serve from 15° to 16°C.

Can be enjoyed from 3 or 4 years, and can be kept in the cellar for 10 years.

Pinot Noir

Emblematic village of the Côte de Nuits, to which it gives its name. The vineyard extends over 310 hectares, including 300 hectares planted with Pinot Noir, spread over the communes of Nuits-Saint-Georges and Prémeaux. Nuits-Saint-Georges has a history-filled past, the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, the most famous wine brotherhood in Burgundy, was founded here in 1934.

Grapes are manually harvested, passed over a sorting table, crushed, de-stemmed and then left to ferment for about 18 days with 2 punch-downs and 2 pump-overs per day and then matured for about 16 months.