100% Pinot Noir.
Colour: very deep red, as a black cherry juice.
Bouquet: powerful with accents of wild dark berries, spicy and woody notes.
Palate: this wine is structured but velvety. Silky tannins fruity, nice concentration without losing its refinement. Well balanced. Great wine.
This wine is ideal with a plate of fattened hen and game dishes such as pheasant and venison, beef stew, grilled meats, and regional cheeses: Amour de Nuits, Époisses and Cîteaux.
Serve at a temperature of 16-17 °C. (60-62°F.).
This wine has a good aging potential of about five to seven years in the cellar.
The village of Gevrey Chambertin is located in the northern part of the Côte de Nuits. It is one of the vastest winemaking villages in Burgundy. The grappes are harvested in the villages of Gevrey and Brochon, which also produce the Côte de Nuits-Villages.
Brown calcic and brown calcareous soils with some parcels of marls covered with scree and silt derived from the plateau. South-Eastern and eastern exposure. Soft slope, slightly more abrupt on the Premier Crus. Altitude between 280 and 330 m.
The grapes are harvested by hand and sorted manually on arrival at the winery. 100% of the grapes were de-stemmed. Vatting for 22 days. Cold maceration for 5 days at 8°C.
Twelve days of fermentation with punching down twice a day during the fermentation at a temperature of 33°C. Ageing in 100 % Burgundian oak barrels of 228 litres with 20% of new one.
2020 was notable for its mildness and low rainfall. After a winter with no serious frosts, we went straight into a spring dominated by sunny, dry weather, resulting in very early bud break. Infrequent outbreaks of rain in June and July were not enough to stave off water shortages.
Very high summer temperatures combined with intense sun exposure levels led to the vines gradually falling prey to hydric stress, causing delays to fruit ripening before harvest-time.
Once again, the vegetative cycle was shortened, being almost three weeks ahead of 2019’s. Thankfully, the harvest was saved by the relative cool of the nights. The harvest was of marvelous quality but there was very little juice in the red grapes (reduction of 30 to 50%), and reasonable potential alcohol, despite the heat.
The whites, on the other hand, coped very well with these extreme conditions and yields were very good.
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