Where it's from:
>France
>Burgundy
>Savigny-les-Beaune
Price per case:
£109.85
Bottle size:
75 cl
Bottles per case:
6
Style:
Soft & Supple Reds
Grapes:
Pinot Noir
Description:
This appellation produces 130ha of village-appellation wine. Located at the mouth of a valley which offers some of the most appealing vistas to be found anywhere in the Côte d'Or, the vineyards are arranged in a V-shape, and produce a variety of wine styles. However, these terroirs do have something in common, as the wines tend to be refined, elegant and charming. The soils are essentially pebbly limestone. The grapes were hand picked at optimum maturity and put into small perforated boxes. Patriat has two sorting tables, with 10 people per table, looking for any grape that isn't fit to go into the fermenting vat. The grapes were destemmed and the whole, uncrushed berries were put into open wooden foudres. No yeasts, enzymes or tannins were added, to avoid altering the character of the must. The cold soak (at about 13 degrees) lasted for 5-6 days. Patriat doesn't plunge during this first week, as he thinks only bitter tannins are extracted at this stage. Once fermentation starts, the cap is plunged by foot (''I like the results,'' he says with a shrug). Maceration lasts for about three weeks, and malolactic happens ''when it happens''. The wine was matured in barrel for 15 months without racking (under 20% new oak was used). The wine was neither fined nor filtered before bottling.
