Burgundy
Black Pinot - 2018 - Yann Durieux
Recrue des Sens
Direct and brutal and yet smooth and fruity, with a complex aromatic palette... Palate: smooth, immediate pleasure, an already legendary cuvée! A rich Pinot Noir, without a hint of wood!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2023 to 2027
- rock’n’roll
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Yann Durieux, the former vineyard manager of Domaine Prieuré-Roch, here brings us his Pinot Noir cuvée "Black Pinot". A re-release of one of Yann’s first cuvées from 2010... A 100% natural juice, from 1er Ponts, a brut de cuve from a clay-limestone parcel. The vines are 40 years old, facing south, at an altitude of 400 m in the commune of Villers-la-Faye, southwest of Nuits-Saint-Georges. No oak, 10 months in vats, and zero sulphites.

Yann Durieux
Yann Durieux. He may have the look of a wayward hippy, but this is a man who’s never lost his way or his gift. The young vigneron is a wunderkind with an impeccable résumé, including 10 years at Prieuré-Roch as vineyard manager. Let’s just put it in bold now for all to see: ATTENTION PURE TALENT. In 2010, he and Christela took over Domaine Recrue des Sens, then an estate in difficulty. Their...
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