Burgundy
Bourgogne "Cras" Blanc - 2023 - Marc Soyard
Domaine de la Cras
A nose boasting lovely complexity, with notes of citrus and brioche... Palate: intense, rich and mineralesque, with fabulous length. This is once again a very beautiful cuvée, super ambitious!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Designation
- Bourgogne AOP
- Degree of alcohol
- 14 %
- To drink from
- 2026 to 2032
- rock’n’roll
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100% Chardonnay vines grown biodynamically and planted in 1985 on a single 3-ha parcel of vines, in the Coteaux de Dijon area, on clay-limestone and pebbly soils. Once a flourishing wine region, today it’s as if the Gobi desert surrounded the estate. The upside is… Marc has zero pesticide spraying neighbours! Vinification: direct pressing, settling of the juices and batonnage during alcoholic fermentation, 20 months of aging in barrels with 10 to 15% new oak. Bottled without fining nor filtration, just a micro-dose of sulphur.

Marc Soyard
Marc Soyard, a vigneron who trained for six years with Jean-Yves Bizot, decided in 2012 to set off on his own adventure. He acquired some vines in Villers-la-Faye in the Hautes-Côtes-de-Nuits – 15 ares, which is to say, next to nothing! But he’d have to make do, given the prices that have unfortunately resulted from property speculation in Burgundy! Then, in 2013, the Dijon regional authority...
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