Burgundy
An eminently mineral nose, opening with notes of chalk, followed by white truffle, honey, pear and candied lemon. Creamy, tense, and ultra smooth, with a long, salty finish. One of our great favourites, built like an "an old style Meursault", as Sylvain likes to say!
100% Chardonnay, from 40-year-old vines farmed biodynamically, and planted on a plot of 23.2 ares with a soil of small pebbles over an iron-rich subsoil. The grapes are harvested by hand. Natural vinification: after 5-6 hours of gentle pressing in an old vertical press, the juice is transferred into barrels once fermentation has started, then the wine is matured for two years in barrels, 25% of which are new oak. Bottled at the estate without fining or filtration, and just a microdose of sulphur.
Sylvain Pataille is the winemaker at the helm of his eponymous estate in Marsannay, Burgundy, and quite possibly the revelation of recent years in the sector. A native of the village, he studied at the Beaune wine school and graduated as an oenologist in Bordeaux. Sylvain started from scratch more than 25 years ago... With just 1 hectare in 1999, the estate now covers 17 hectares, almost...
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Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
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