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CÔTE-DE-NUITS-VILLAGES 2018

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2023

Varietal

100% Pinot Noir.

Tasting notes

Colour: 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 pairing

This 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 suggestions

Serve at a temperature of 15-16°C (60°F).

Ageing potential

This wine can be enjoyed now, but can be kept for 5 to 10 years.

Origins

This village appellation is divided into two parts: one to the north, in the communes of Fixin and Brochon; the other, further south, in the villages of Premeaux-Prissey, Comblanchien and Corgoloin. Corgoloin thus marks the border between the Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune vineyards.

It covers 165 hectares, with only 10 hectares planted with white grapes.

The slopes of Comblanchien and Corgoloin are cut into the hard limestone of the Upper Bathonian. They do not rest on the edge of the plateau but follow a regular, gentle slope. At the top are brown soils with little limestone. Thick scree forms the slope. At the base of the hillside, brown soils cover the accumulated silts. Fixin and Brochon, on the other hand, lie on the brown-red soil of the foothills: silt that has come down from the slopes and is mixed with limestone pebbles.

Vinification and maturing

The 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.

Vintage : 2018

Once again, the 2018 vintage in Burgundy offered the vision scenario of an early harvest. It was already the case in 2017, and 2018 was even earlier! This vintage comes in the earliest harvest palmares compare to the norm (around the 20^th of September) and come just in the second place after the unforgettable 2003 vintage when harvest between the 20 and the 25^th of August in the Côte d’Or department.

All along the year 2018, the weather was very diverse, even atypical according to the month and the area. After a rainy start in the year, the spring period was very summery with sunshine above the seasonal norms and quite scarce rain.

This trend continued until the harvest with a very hot and dry summer, this allowed the grapes to finish their maturation early. Harvest started on the 20^th of August and lasted until the third week of September… a particularly long amplitude.

At least quality is here for this 2018 vintage, but also quantity. Grapes arrived to the winery with a perfect state of health. Concentrated, structured, generous, rich and powerful are some of the adjectives that characterize this magnificent vintage.