Burgundy
Bourgogne - 2020 - Marc Soyard
Domaine de la Cras
A complex and structured nose, with notes of black cherry, shelled almond, undergrowth, soft spices... Palate: a clean, sharp, fruit-driven juice, with beautiful body, very ripe.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Bourgogne
- Degree of alcohol
- 11.5 %
- To drink from
- 2023 to 2027
- rock’n’roll
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A 100% Pinot Noir cuvée, from an organic and biodynamic estate. 5-ha parcel of vines planted in 1983 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 and sulphur crazy neighbours! Vinification: non-interventionist, semi-carbonic maceration (with 70% of the grapes destemmed and 30% whole bunches), 12 months of maturation in barrels, with about 5% new oak. Micro-dose of sulphur at bottling.

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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