Burgundy
Monopole "Cras" Blanc - 2019 - Marc Soyard
Domaine de la Cras
A nose boasting lovely complexity, with notes of citrus and brioche... Palate: intense, rich and mineralesque, with fabulous length. An ambitious cuvée!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Coteaux de Dijon
- Degree of alcohol
- 14.5 %
- To drink from
- 2023 to 2029
- rock’n’roll
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100% Chardonnay from vines grown biodynamically planted in 1985 on a single 3-ha parcel of vines, 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 neighbours! Vinification: direct pressing, settling of the juices and batonnage during alcoholic fermentation, 20 months of maturation in barrels, with 30% new oak. Just a micro-dose of sulfites at bottling (1 gram/hl).

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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