Burgundy
Le Vieux Sage - 2023 - Catharina Sadde
Les Horées
A nose with notes of ripe berries, candied orange, liquorice, and a hint of sweet spices. On the palate, a concentrated wine with finely grained tannins. A generic Burgundy that is anything but generic!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Designation
- Bourgogne AOP
- Degree of alcohol
- 11.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2029
- rock’n’roll
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Pinot Noir made from 60-year-old vines farmed biodynamically and planted on a 0.31-hectare plot in Pommard, with deep, brown, well-drained clay-limestone soils facing east. The grapes are harvested by hand, of course, and vinified naturally: 80% whole bunches, cut into small clusters in order to remove the main stem, then gently pressed, followed by 15 months of maturation in barrels that have seen several wines. Neither fined nor filtered, and just a microdose of sulphur at bottling, done at the estate.

Catharina Sadde
Catharina Sadde is the woman at the helm of Domaine Les Horées, founded in 2019. Born in Germany, she began her career as a cook, but after experiencing a grape harvest in the Nahe region of West Germany, decided to head down the vineyard path. She pursued a master's degree in viticulture and oenology at the University of Geisenheim. From 2010 to 2018, she took on a succession of internships...
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