BOURGOGNE ROUGE
“Cuvée Auguste”

Appellation: Bourgogne
Grape variety: Pinot fin, extremely rare massal selection from 1964.
Rootstock: 3 309
Terroir : Of the walled vineyard (clos) of six hectares, planted by the monks of Cluny Abbey around 910, 2 ha of which make up the Pinot Noir for the Cuvée Auguste. The subsoil is Middle Jurassic Bathonian limestone, the same kind that is found throughout Burgundy. The difference here is that there are pearly limestone slabs with beautiful limestone crystals embedded in them: calcite-aragonite. The thin layer of soil (5 to 50 cm) is clay-limestone. The colluvial deposits of clay loam covering a layer of very calcareous and siliceous weathered loam give the wines their minerality.

Vines : Guyot Simple and Guyot Poussard pruning / Ploughing / Manual disbudding on the trunk and the plant / Yield 20 hl/ha / Organically farmed since 1954 and biodynamically since 1998.

Vinification: Harvested by hand with sorting at the vine and on a sorting table when necessary / Semi-carbonic whole cluster fermentation with cold pre-fermentation, natural yeasts, no SO2, no chaptalisation or enzymes, with joy and a very festive spirit / Matured in barrels, no racking / Assembled in a large vat 40 days before bottling / Bottled using nitrogen, no filtration, in September.

Tasting advice: This wine can be kept from 10 to 20 years depending on the storage conditions; it is advisable to store it at below 14°C.

Biodynamic Certification : Demeter.

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MÂCON CRUZILLE “Manganite”

Appellation : Mâcon-Cruzille
Grape variety : small-berried Gamay
Nombre de bouteille tirées : 3200 from 2 hectares
Terroir : see Cuvée Auguste

Vines: Guyot Simple followed by Cordon Royat pruning / Ploughing / Manual debudding on the trunk and the plant / Yield 28 hl/ha / Organically farmed since 1954 and biodynamically since 1998.

Vinification: Harvested by hand with sorting at the vine and on a sorting table when necessary / cold pre-fermentation in conical wooden vats / Fermentation using natural yeasts, no SO2 added / Matured on lees for 11 months without racking / Bottled using nitrogen, no filtration or SO2, in September.

Corks: Abel, Catalan artisan cork producers; the cork oak trees grow in the mountains. 18 to 20 veins per cork.

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MÂCON CRUZILLE Blanc
“Les Chassagnes”

Appellation: Mâcon cruzille blanc
Lieu dit: Les Chassagnes
Grape variety : massal selection of Chardonnay
Rootstock : 161-49
Terroir: The walled vineyard (clos) was abandoned around 1880 after the phylloxera epidemic. We replanted it in 2005. The virgin soil is rich with humus from the forest that had grown on it. The very thin layer of soil (15 to 30 cm) is clay-limestone. The colluvial deposits of clay loam covering a layer of very calcareous and siliceous weathered loam give the wines their minerality.

Vines: Guyot Simple and Guyot Poussard pruning / Ploughing / Yield 20 hl/ha / Organic and biodynamic farming.

Vinification: Harvested by hand with no sorting because it is unnecessary / 12 hours of crushing and skin maceration before pressing / Fermentation in 600L demi-muids using natural yeasts, no SO2 / Matured on lees for 11 months without racking / Bottled in September with or without SO2 depending on the batches.

Certified by: Qualité France
Biodynamic Certification: Demeter.
Tasting advice: Ideal as a pre-dinner drink, or with a mature goat cheese or well-aged comté (24-month).

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