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Wine Description
The Story
The appellation formed at the foot of the slope of the Grands Crus :These vineyards enjoy an eastern exposure, are well drained and are planted on brown calcic soil with silt deposits. The wines produced here are the most delicate and naturally balanced, offering remarkable fullness and length. The most well-known climats of the Domaine are: Aux Etelois, Champs Cheny, Aux Corvées and, located a little bit further down, les Seuvrées.
...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...
