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Wine Description
The Story
This Grand Cru parcel is monitored by a vine-grower who takes care of the vineyard on a daily basis. He constantly seeks the right balance between his own work and the biological cycle, so as to allow the terroir to fully express its nuances.
Following hand picking in small cases and meticulous sorting of the grapes, pressing takes place in two phases: evacuation of the first juice, then pressing in two-hourly cycles. Depending on the profi...
Wine Information
The climate was very chaotic and unsettled, with some hazards and extremes which damaged the grapes and hardly reduced the yields. The end of winter, which was overall mild and poor in rainfalls, favoured the early beginning of vegetation. But this kind situation deteriorated during the flowering and caused a lot of flower abortion. Some spring spells, abundant rainfalls and hail storms were also noticed. On the opposite the month of August wa...
Vintage 2012
2012 was beset by unusual weather that didn’t spare the vines! A mild winter, spring-like March, cool spring with frosts, summer-like May, cooler, wetter June, a variable summer with heatwaves, hail and storms… Because of the cold damp spring, some of the vine flowers didn’t set and form fruit, there was millerandage (where the flowers aren’t fully fertilised and give small berries) and high pressure from mildew and odium. Temperatures went ri...
