White wine · Saint-Aubin Premier Cru
Les Murgers des Dents de Chien
- Vintage
- 2020
- Grape
- Chardonnay
The parcel
Clay-limestone, rocky and limestone. South orientation, cool and windy microclimate. Vineyard: Average age: 45 years, 10,000 vines/ha. Yield: 38 hl/ha. Grape variety: Chardonnay fine type, quality rootstock. Culture: Sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Winemaking & ageing
Whole-bunch pressing, followed by light settling and immediate transfer to Burgundy barrels. Alcoholic fermentation with indigenous yeasts, followed by malolactic fermentation, in Burgundy barrels. Ageing: 13 months on the lees, under reductive conditions, without racking, with lees stirring and no SO2.
Tasting notes
This wine with strong character is rich, mineral and precise. Its sapid and tense flavors, from the limestone terroir, are combined with lemony, floral and fossil shell notes which give it great complexity. It is a vibrant wine, with great energy.
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