CHANDON DE B Pernand Vergelesses Ile Des Vergelesses 1er Cru 2019 75cl Red

Grape Variety : Pinot Noir

Terroir : a plot halfway up the hillside with a gentle east-facing slope, clay and limestone soil in semi-deep lands, making it an exceptional terroir. Vines approximately 40 years old.

Tasting Notes : dark and brilliant color, full and elegant fruity palate, caressing and mouth-watering texture.

🍷 Serve at 16°C, decant 2 hours before serving or suitable for long aging.

Domaine Chandon de Briailles, located in the Côte de Beaune, has belonged to the same Chandon family since 1834! Today, Claude and François, heirs of their Grandmother Countess Chandon, work with precision to honor their magnificent vineyard heritage.

The estate covers 13.7 hectares, equally divided among the three communes of Savigny-Lès-Beaune, Pernand-Vergelesses, and Aloxe-Corton. Thirty small plots are cultivated.

Claude and François received a strong legacy from their mother at the estate. Highly complementary, each gained solid experience before taking over the estate in the 1990s for Claude, and then 10 years later for François. Claude notably created a laboratory to ensure precise monitoring of the wines; François, with his previous life as a wine merchant, was highly sensitized to tasting wines from biodynamic farming practices. It was therefore natural for him to initiate the conversion of his vineyard to biodynamics.

Organic farming has held an important place on the estate since the 1980s. Nadine de Nicolay realized very early on the absurdity of the entire existing array of chemical treatments for vines. From then on, the estate resumed working the soil as an obvious practice. Five horses have been used for plowing since 2014.

The estate has been certified by the Demeter label since 2018. Due to the deep rooting of the plant it promotes and its completely natural aspect, biodynamics gives the wines an inimitable texture on the palate and aromatic complexity. The wines are magnified, exhibiting incomparable elegance and charm. This meticulous work precisely reveals the aromatic identity of each climate.

In the cellar, all wines are aged in old barrels. The goal is not to heavily intervene in the winemaking and aging process, but simply to guide nature. The wines each reflect the particularity of their climate and can be appreciated at different stages of their life, for the wisest and most patient...

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