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, a fortysomething vigneron in Marsannay, is undoubtedly one of the most exciting revelations of this area in recent times. He’s no recent arrival, though, he just knew how to be patient, start small, and grow: from 1 hectare in 1999, the estate now has 17... The estate was certified organic in 2008, but Pataille lost his certification in 2016, to his great chagrin, following a...
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Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
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