CÔTE DE NUITS-VILLAGES 2022
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VARIETAL
The Pinot Noir is the only grape variety of the Côte de Nuits-Village appellation.
- Density 10 000 feet/ha
- Pruning : Guyot
- Manual harvest
- Yields of 50 hl/ha
TASTING NOTES
- Deep purple color.
- The nose is powerful and rich, with notes of wild blackberries, licorice, and fresh fig.
- Supple but well structured, it offers a little touch of vanilla on the finish after a rich array of red fruit aromas.
FOOD AND WINE PAIRING
This wine is great with “œufs en moeurette” (poached eggs in wine sauce) with a Bourgogne Pinot Noir sauce, grilled lamb cutlets, donkey sausage, a spicy pizza, beef roast, poultry gizzards in salad or a good camembert cheese.
SERVING SUGGESTIONS
Serve at a temperature of 15 °C.
AGEING POTENTIAL
This wine can be enjoyed now, but can be kept for 3 to 5 years.
ORIGIN
Just like its “big brother”, the Gevrey Chambertin, this Côte de Nuits-Villages offers aromas of cherry and blackcurrant, often of licorice, and almost always aromas of wildlife, typical of its appellation and terroir.
VINIFICATION AND MATURING
The harvest is done manually. The grapes are sorted once in the vineyard and then more severely in the cellars as soon as they arrive. The fruits are then destemmed, then crushed and placed in thermo-regulated vats. The vinification begins with a cold maceration for 4 to 6 days at a temperature of 8-10°C. Then the alcoholic fermentation begins with the addition of selected yeasts from Burgundy. Daily pumped over and punching down are made to promote the extraction of tannins and color material.
After unpacking, the young wine is decanted and then partly rehoused in barrels (oak – 228 litres) with about 30% new barrels and a part in stainless steel tank for ageing on lees for 10 to 12 months.
Vintage : 2022
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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