100% Pinot Noir.
Colour: deep ruby red.
Bouquet: the nuances on the nose express blackcurrant, raspberry, blackberry and animal notes typical of Côte-de-Nuits wines.
Palate: the wine is powerful, rich and concentrated, with aromas of berries such as blackcurrant and raspberry. Tannic and very well-balanced, spicy, delicately oaky. Nice persistence.
This wine goes well with cold meats, pasta, white or smoked ham, couscous, beef in sauce, grilled meat, roast chicken, Camembert or Brie cheese.
Serve at a temperature of 16 to 17°C. (60-62°F.).
This wine is ready to be tasted now but can be kept in the cellar between 3 and 5 years.
With the vineyard of Marsannay, Fixin is the most northern wine village of the Côte de Nuits. It is a production of red wines mainly of which the Premiers Crus are famous. There is also some white Fixin.
- The soils are limestone containing a few traces of marl.
- South-Eastern and eastern exposure.
- Soft slope.
- Altitude between 270 and 360 m.
Grapes were hand picked and sorted at their arrival at the winery. They were then totaly destemmed and placed in vat for 4 to 6 days cold maceration (with temperature maintened at 8-10°C. / 46-50°F.). Then came 12 days of fermentation in tank, with pumping over and punching the cap twice a day. The wine is then placed in oak barrels (30% new oak) to age for several months on fine lees.
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 (colour 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 vinifications had to be carried out with meticulous attention and precision. We took particular care over the extraction of colouring 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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