The Wine

Côte de Nuits-Villages rouge Les Perrières

Pinot Noir grapes dominate in the Côte de Nuits and our wine is a unique cuvée called Les Perrières. The hand-picked grapes undergo a traditional vinification that starts with three days of cold maceration, which helps extract colour and tannin from the skins before a 15-day fermentation. The wine is then matured for a minimum of eight months in oak barrels, 20% of which are new each year.

With the aid of Vincent and Christine we select those barrels which in our opinion have produced the best wine and these are then blended together to create our exclusive Côte de Nuits-Villages rouge Les Perrières. The resulting wine has ripe red and black fruit flavours with nuances of liquorice, and that typical fine Burgundian bouquet of undergrowth and damp fur. It ages very well and is usually ready to drink four or five years after the vintage.

Côte de Nuits-Villages blanc

The white is a most unusual wine, firstly because most of the wines here are red, and secondly because it includes 20% of Pinot Blanc grapes with the Chardonnay. Pinot Blanc, although indigenous to Burgundy, is now more closely associated with Alsace, and only a handful of growers retain some to add character and fruitiness to the ubiquitous Chardonnay.

The grapes are pressed immediately on arrival at the cellar and the must is then gently separated from the skins before undergoing fermentation with natural yeasts. One third of the wine is put into new oak barrels, where it gains complexity from the wood, and the rest is matured in stainless steel. The juices are then blended prior to bottling to produce a refreshing yet full-bodied white, which combines the weight and roundness of the Chardonnay with the soft fruit of the Pinot Blanc and the smooth vanilla essence of the oak.