100% Chardonnay.
Colour: Pale gold with emerald highlights.
Nose: The bouquet is expressive and surprisingly elegant, combining aromas of white flowers with delicately woody mineral notes.
Palate: On the palate, this wine is lively and fresh, with notes of citrus fruit, white flowers and beautiful minerality. Elegant, balanced and persistent.
It is perfect with grilled or smoked salmon, and delicious as an aperitif!
Serve at a temperature of 14 °C. (57°F.).
This wine can be opened now or kept in the cellar for 3 years.
At the southern end of the Côte de Beaune, the Santenay appellation embodies both a thermal and wine-growing tradition. Spread across the communes of Santenay and Remigny, it produces wines with diverse expressions depending on the exposure of the hillsides. The vineyard covers 330 hectares, including 120 hectares classified as Premier Cru, spread over three distinct areas. The result of a blend of several Premier Cru parcels, this cuvée brings together different facets of the Santenay terroir.
Brown limestone soils, red gravel, ferruginous oolite, yellow limestone, marl, clay and sand / Varied and often steep slopes / South and south-east exposure / Altitude: 190-380 metres.
After rigorous selection of the grapes, the bunches are quickly pressed. The must obtained is transferred to temperature-controlled stainless steel vats for cold settling (8°-10°C). After 24 hours, racking separates the clear juice from the coarse lees. The juice is then placed in oak barrels (35% new barrels) where alcoholic fermentation begins. Ageing continues for 9 months on fine lees with regular stirring.
"It has been a long time since winegrowers had not had to bear a long hard way to give birth to a new vintage. During the months of April, May and June 2016, they suffered the dramatic consequences of freezing, hail falls, downy mildew attacks, fears of powdery mildew, etc. Many are those who suffered very hard from these vagaries of the weather, to the point of sometime wishing that year ends as soon as possible and doubt of the future. Finally, July and then August and September, with the full sun, made us forget a bit of the troubles and brought back optimism in the vineyard.
In Burgundy, during the harvest, the vines were green but a lot of them, however, hid under their foliage a lack of grapes. Burgundy this year still produced a small crop, even very small for some areas (Chablis). But for the spared vineyards and those who could enjoy a "push", the grapes were at the rendezvous in good proportion. When the winemaker, during 2016, brought all the necessary care to these vines battered by successive storms, and managed to bring the fruit to maturity, so were the wines of a good quality. They are concentrated, with enough silky tannin, and have an acidic balance of good quality
It is therefore a year of "winegrower and winemaker", which will make a qualitative difference. These turbulences were not enough to affect our motivation and we are proud to introduce you to the vintage 2016.
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