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Burgundy - Pinot Noir
- ABV 13.0%
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2019 - 2023
This is the first vintage that this wine has been made under the new Côte d’Or appellation. It is made from a 2.5 hectare parcel of around 70 year old vines and is 20% whole bunch vinified in 2017. Displaying excellent density for its level, this is substantial, with bright red berries and forest fruits alongside ripe, supple tannins – a bit of a snip.
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France
Burgundy - Pinot Noir
- ABV 13.0%
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2019 - 2023
Following a mild winter, no-one would have anticipated the savage frost at the end of April which immediately reduced potential production severely. The deed was done. June saw a return to benign weather and sunshine. This is a blend of three parcels, creating complexity. The 2016 presents a jet plum colour, to a bramble rim. The nose offers black cherry and wild blackberry with some liquorice notes. There is attractive fruit intensity and structure, chunky tannins enrobed with rounded fruit. Earthy, dark and mineral with coffee-ed notes, dark fruit, layered and long, this has a real sense of place – great value, in fact.
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Burgundy - Gamay
- ABV 13.0%
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2023 - 2033
A south-facing walled vineyard, just under a hectare in size. Le Clos’ vines are an average of 70 years old, some of them planted pre-phylloxera, en foule (untrellised), at a density of 13,000 vines per hectare. This is a unique, arid terroir of hard granite and sand, very rocky and
with no topsoil at all. The wine is aged entirely in barrels, the proportion of new oak varying with the vintage
conditions, with the remainder being one to two year old barrels from Domaine Jacques Prieur.
Spiced dark fruit is allied to cigar box notes, minerals and heady flowers. Generous, with firm well-integrated
tannins, there is a mineral seam which adds energy and focus to rich, dark cherry fruit, sustaining a long, detailed
finish.
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France
Burgundy - Pinot Noir
- ABV 13.0%
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Drink now / lay down
2021 - 2027
This is named after the walnut trees which must have grown nearby. A blend of two premier cru plots in the centre of the village, Les Gruenchers and Clos Baulet, both of which have a high clay content, making for a powerful style of wine, albeit with good approachability and lovely bright red berry fruit. It was 15% whole bunch vinified in 2017, which Jean-Paul commented gives a strawberry-fruited character and tempers the natural muscle. A crowd pleaser.
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