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France
Burgundy - Gamay
- ABV 14.0%
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Drink now / lay down
2024 - 2032
Champ de Cour is a south-east facing site, planted with 50+ year-old vines on granite soils, with pebbles under thick, dense clay. Dried herbs and deft exotic spices on the nose. The palate’s cool raspberry fruit is underscored by dark, rocky minerality, with black pepper and a savoury, sous bois herbaceousness. Substantial, but rendered so elegantly. A third whole bunch vinified in 2019, then aged in 600 litre old oak demi-muids for 15 months.
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Exclusive
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France
Burgundy - Gamay
- ABV 13.0%
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Drink now / lay down
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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