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  • Time

    13:23 PM
  • Wine average?

    94 Tb
  • Country Ranking?

    177
  • Region Ranking?

    59
  • Popularity ranking?

    218

News

“In particular, the Richebourg and Romanée St. Vivant are simply sensational and worth a special search to track down and the Clos de Vougeot is also a serious standout for this appellation. Moreover, the Malconsorts is reference standard and by far the best value here.” – Burghound, Jan 2003

“The proprietor, Alain Hudelot, has an impeccable winemaking technique…these are clearly wines worth the effort to search out” – Robert Parker, Burgundy

“One of the unsung heroes of Burgundy for he makes excellent wine, though his efforts are largely unrecognised.” – Clive Coates, Cote D’Or

“Alain Hudelot-Noellat’s wines have been among the best in the Cote for many years – full of charm and exuberance, but with considerable depths for those who care to look for them.” – Remington Norman, The Great Domaines of Burgundy

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History

The domaine was established in 1960 when Alain Noëllat received several parcels in Chambolle-Musigny from his father, Noël, and Alain married Charles Noëllat's granddaughter, Odile, the same year, and inherited some of those vineyards.

This domaine has been the scene of bitter intra-family fueds over the last few decades. The family had been resident in Chambolle since the early 1900's, the domaine having expanded when Noël Hudelot married a member of the Mongeard family. Alain Hudelot was born in 1940 and after apprenticing with local growers, began renting vineyards as well as acquiring his own that included part of his father's vines in Clos-de-Vougeot. In 1963 he married the grand-daughter of Charles Noëllat but her family vehemently disapproved of the marriage and attempted to deprive their her of her dowry, a precious few rows of vine (no such problems for Lalou Bize-Leroy when she bought their vines follow the death of Charles Noëllat surviving widow in 1988.) The legal procedings survived the passing of Charles Noëllat but her brother refused permission for Alain to farm the land and it was not until his death in 1976 that the matter was resolved. 

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Winemaking

Yields are kept to a modest 40hl/ha, with the grands crus averaging 36hl/ha.  However this is achieved primarily through strict selection rather than green harvests or viticultural intervention.  Similarly, the winemaking regime is relatively non-interventional, with 100% destemming and a pre-fermentation cold maceration of up to seven days (for the grands crus, shorter for the villages) allowing maximum extraction of finesse and complexity prior to natural-yeast fermentations in which temperatures reach 32°C before cooling the must to 25°C.  A mixture of oak barrels - both forests and tonnelliers - is employed, although the majority is low-toast Allier from François Frères, with the villages receiving one-third new oak, premiers crus around two-thirds, and the grands crus 100% new oak each year.  The wines are racked once (following malolactic fermentation) and are bottled around 18 months following harvest unfined and unfiltered.

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