Introduction about Millésime 2006 : the most important is under the skin
A long, cold and snowy winter, humid March, May stopped the raising until June. After such period of latency and impatience, flowering finally exploded and intensified captivating perfumes, but only for a few days. The next following weeks were hot and dry until beginning of August. Then it rained : the first rainy week was necessary, but the ten following days weren’t...
This highly regarded family-owned Domaine was started in 1955 by Daniel Rion, with just two hectares of vines in the commune of Vosne Romanée, which had been left to him by his paternal grandfather. Forty years later in 1995 Daniel retired. Today his children, Pascale, Olivier and Christophe run a domaine of eighteen hectares in eighteen different appellations, in six villages of the Côtes de Nuits and the Hautes Côtes. They believe in minimal...
Resulting from several parcels representing 1.90 ha, one of these is gently sloped to an altitude of 250 m, in ground of rather deep silt on clay, with vines from 35 to 55 years old. The other part, 25 years old, comes from a parcel on the top of the slope (300 with 325m), which is steeply sloping, on humus-rich black soil, gravel-stony, very calcareous. The sub-soil is also calcareous and stony.
Vinified separately, the wines resulting from ...
The vintage is entirely destemmed, in order to avoid the contribution of harsh tannins and green flavors.
After a pre-maceration of a few days (the duration varies according to characteristics' of the vintage), the wine making proceeds in open stainless steel tanks where the temperatures of fermentation are carefully controlled. The extraction of the color and fine tannins is supported by pigeages, or pumping of the juice over the must, dail...
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