Burgundy
Ladoix "Les Briquottes" - 2018 - François de Nicolay
Domaine Chandon de Briailles
A complex and very elegant nose with notes of flowers and sweet spice: rose buds, peony, Sichuan pepper... The palate presents a lovely contrast with beautiful minerality and fine tannins. Pure pleasure!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Ladoix
- Degree of alcohol
- 11.5 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2030
- rock’n’roll
A 100% Pinot Noir cuvée from 30-year-old vines farmed organically on a certified estate, planted on limestone soils, in the northern reaches of the famous Corton Grands Crus. The density of plantation is 10,000 vines per hectare, harvesting is done by hand, obviously. Vinification is respectful of the grapes: alcoholic fermentation in cement vats with whole bunches, 18 months of maturation in barrels. Bottled without fining or filtration, and only a micro dose of sulphur.
François de Nicolay
François de Nicolay, child of the ‘70 vintage and head of Domaine Chandon de Briailles, today embodies the renewal of this historic estate, straddling the line between modernity and respect for tradition. A family property since 1834, located four kilometres north of Beaune, the estate extends over 13.7 ha in the communes of Savigny-Lès-Beaune, Pernand-Vergelesses and Aloxe-Corton. After...
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