Burgundy
Monopole "Cras" - 2019 - Marc Soyard
Domaine de la Cras
A complex and structured nose, with notes of cherry and morello cherry... Palate: fruity and dense, with notes of salted butter caramel. An ambitious cuvée, which is already highly sought after!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Coteaux de Dijon
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2023 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
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A 100% organic and biodynamic Pinot Noir cuvée, from a single 5-ha parcel of massal selection vines, planted in 1983 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! Natural vinification without additives: semi-carbonic maceration of the whole bunches, and 20 months of maturation in barrels, with 30% new oak. Bottled without fining or filtration, without added sulfites.

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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