Vintage 2013,
Proud to be from Burgundy !The climatic extremes of this year, which nonetheless provided us with a dry sunny summer, allowed us to obtain excellent maturation. Even though the grape harvest was rather late and wet, it was absolutely fabulous for the pleasure and finesse it gave to the Pinot Noir, bringing out the aromas and complexity of this variety, which is deeply rooted in our ‘terroir’ and impregnated with the harshness o...
Domaine Henri Gouges is, in many minds, the top grower of Nuits Saint-Georges.
The Gouges family has been vineyard proprietors in Nuits for generations and proprietors of the current domaine since 1919. Henri Gouges, along with the Marquis d' Angerville from Volnay, was at the forefront of battles against fraud in Burgundy in the 1920's. In the 1930's Monsieur Gouges was one of the people charged with the job of delineating the crus in Bur...
The average age of the vines is between 30 and 40 years except for the Chaignots, where the vineyard is between 10-15 years.
Pierre and Chrtistian have been among the first domaine to plant a special variety of grass between the vines which has a dual benefit - that of controlling erosion, and of encouraging the roots of the vines to growdeeper into the soil.
The harvest is entirely destemmed and vinification takes place in lined cement ...
Bourgogne An aroma and taste which are both strong and concentrated for these wines originating from two parcels (0.5 hectares). The first is located on limestone or calcareous soil at the edge of the plateau, whereas the second is on more clay-limestone soil, oriented eastwards. From the association of these two sites come intense and expressive wines.
Nuits village Here again, these are wines born from association between some parcels (a...
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