Red Burgundy wines are made from Pinot Noir grapes.
Red Burgundy is a very pleasant and well-balanced wine that perfectly represents the Pinot Noir grape with its palette of aromas of red berries and its flexible structure still reveals a moderate presence of tannins.
- At least 10,000 plants/hectare.
- Pruning: Guyot.
- Hand or mechanical harvest.
- Yield 60 hl/hectare in a standard vintage.
Red ruby, clear and brilliant.
To the nose, the wine offers a basket of small red and black fruits (strawberry, cherry, blackcurrant, and bilberry) and delicate woody notes.
With a nice vinosity and a nice structure, this wine is balanced, fresh, fruity, delicately woody, with refined flavors, all in elegance.
Ideal served as a pre-dinner drink or with a plate of cured meats, Bonito Tataki, Italian pasta, puff pastry pies, pâté in pastry, coq au vin, beef bourguignon, beef and carrot stew and French Camembert cheese.
Serve at around 15°C. (59°F).
This wine can be consumed now or laid down in a cellar for the next 3 years.
The Burgundy appellation covers 384 communes in the Yonne, Côte d’Or, Saône-et-Loire and Rhône départements. Beginning in the Chablis and Auxerrois region in the north, stretching south to the Macon area through Côte d’Or and the Côte Chalonnaise, the Burgundy Appellation comes from a great diversity of soils. In the North, the wines are bright and fragrant whilst in the South they take on more structure.
Our red Burgundies are made from a blend of grapes from the Côte Chalonnaise and the Côte de Beaune that provide fruit and roundness, and from the Auxerrois region for freshness.
Varied soils with calcareous hills that are sometimes chalky or Kimmeridgian in the North, marly chalk on the Côte d’Or and clay marl with hints of granite in Saône-et-Loire.
This 2022 vintage promises to be one of great quality.
We had a rather rainy November, December and January, and February and March were rather cool, which slowed down the emergence of the buds and in turn prevented the frost problems that we had last year.
May was very, very hot providing great flowering conditions. June was then a little chaotic weather wise, as we had some warm mornings and then with violent storms after midday, sometimes with hail. However, at least nothing really bad in our Burgundy.
The harvests started in Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuits around 29 August, which is still relatively early and we had to deal with diverse levels of ripening. Some parcels really stood up to the heat and have given wonderfully ripe grapes. Of course, everything was conditioned by how the vineyard was managed and the amount of exposure. But overall, we had wonderful wines from these parcels, from other parcels which experienced more dehydration. The very high temperatures meant a greater halt in ripening, giving grapes a little less ripe, so we had to wait to harvest them.
By the end of August, we already had fabulous colour extraction and the acidity was very well balanced. All this allowed to be very confident, heading for a great vintage.
In the Chablis area, some winegrowers started harvesting as August was ending, but most of them started harvesting in the first days of September.
The harvesters were relatively unaffected by the rains, which fell either in the late afternoon or at night. The foliage, which was still in good health, benefited from it. Thanks to the rain, juice concentration was limited and the bunches of grapes were able to provide a good balance between sugar content and acidity.
The harvest concluded the third week of September with a smile: neither the frost nor the drought prevented the vineyards from producing close to normal yields. However, the volumes harvested varied from one domain to another, with some estates easily reaching full production while others were below the appellation's yield.
Wines in the making are expressing notes of ripe fruit, pear and peach, while keeping their freshness. They are generous and have a good balance. Quality is definitely there as well.
After a year 2021 disturbed by a poor harvest, this 2022 vintage is a real breath of fresh air.
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