NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES
PREMIER CRU 2021
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VARIETAL
100% Pinot Noir.
TASTING NOTES
Colour: Intense ruby colour with purple reflections.
Nose: Bouquet of ripe red and black berries (blackcurrant-bilberries, cherries). Spicy (pepper) and delicately woody.
Palate: Velvet structure in the mouth, a well-balanced wine, powerful, fruity and spicy, delicately woody, very nice volume: a racy wine;
FOOD AND WINE PAIRING
This wine is an ideal accompaniment to meat that is both tasty and virile (roast lamb, rib of beef, duck breast, game), but also certain fish such as carp in a red wine matelote and also soft, washed-rind cheeses (Époisses, Langres or Soumaintrain).
SERVING SUGGESTIONS
Serve ideally at 16-17°C. (60-62°F.).
AGEING POTENTIAL
It will keep easily for ten years in good conditions.
ORIGIN
At the centre of the Côte de Nuits wine-growing districts in Burgundy, between Beaune and Dijon, Nuits-Saint-Georges comprises two parts: the north towards Vosne Romanée to the Combe de la Serrée is an area of hillsides, the south as far as the commune of Premeaux is an area of plateaux. This vineyard includes 41 Premiers Crus, covers 306 hectares and produces mainly red wines (only 10 hectares are planted with Chardonnay).
The soil is marl-limestone silt with rock outcrops towards the top / East-facing / Gentle slope at the bottom of the hillside and steeper as it rises / Altitude between 280 and 330m.
VINIFICATION AND MATURING
The grapes are harvested by hand and sorted manually on arrival at the winery. All the grapes are de-stemmed. Cold maceration for 6 days at 8° to 10°C. Then, 15 days of alcoholic fermentation with regular punching down (twice a day).
Ageing on French oak barrel (Burgundian size 228 litters) during 14 months. Racking and very delicate filtration before bottling.
Vintage : 2021
Nature certainly set a challenge for the winegrower and the winemaker with this vintage.
It began with very warm temperatures at the end of February which led to an early bud break. The historic frost in April then destroyed young shoots that had emerged too early, significantly affecting the future harvest. Changing weather continued to characterize the vintage through to the harvests.
There were spells of rain from May to mid-August, obliging winegrowers to be constantly on the alert. The only periods of relative calm were during flowering, which took place in good conditions for the formation of the future fruit, and the “Véraison” (color change), which benefited from the return of the sun from mid-August.
The vagaries of the weather contributed to the development of outbreaks of disease, which were contained thanks to the tireless efforts of our winegrowers. In spite of this, considerable sacrifices had to be made to ensure a high level of quality, and rigorous sorting of the fruit in the vineyard and on arrival at the winery was necessary.
This vintage also required a major technical effort. The vinification had to be carried out with meticulous attention and precision. We took particular care over the extraction of coloring matter, the balance of the structure and the aromatic expression of our red wines, and of the freshness, balance of acidity and aromatic potential of our white wines.
From the first tastings, this vintage presented excellent flavour and aroma potential, and the balance of acidity was contained. The wines are less sunny, revealing a more moderate character, lighter in terms of alcohol and in tannic structure. These are wines that will assert their personalities by offering a diverse palette of flavours and textures, like the growing season.
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