2018 Domaine Demougeot Savigny-Les-Beaune “Les Bourgeots”, Burgundy, FranceThe Pinot Noirs are harvested in small boxes, in order to preserve the berries. After passing through a sorting table, the grapes are destemmed and then placed in vats for a period of 12 to 20 days. After pressing, the wine is aged in barrels for one year, 15% of which is new wood, and 2 to 3 months in vats, before being bottled by gravity, depending on the lunar calendar. Rodolphe Demougeot created his estate in 1992, in Meloisey, in the Hautes Ctes

severe disbudding

The Nackenheimer Rothenberg is without question the most important site at the Gunderloch estate

guaranteeing optimal growth for this variety

Mathilde-Émilie Perrier

Defined since 1929

Manually harvested in 20kg bins

Domaine Lupin’s Roussette de Savoie "Frangy" is considered one of the finest examples of this rare and expressive mountain white

Today its range is limited to the cool

Mostly this is because what is made there

so only those grapes that met the strictest quality requirements were used

which simply means to ferment in a sealed tank filled with Carbon Dioxide rather than Oxygen

and— as evidenced by this exquisite example from the family-run Domaine Jourdain— mouthwatering reds