2020 Organic Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits, Jean-Claude Boisset
Burgundy, France
In the glass, the Organic Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits is straw yellow with white highlights. It has very intense bouquet perfumes with notes of citrus zest, green apple and toasty aromas of fresh brioche. The palate has excellent tension with concentrated fruit flavours that linger on the finish.
The Hautes Côte de Nuits vineyards run parallel to those of the Côte de Nuits but are situated at a higher altitude. This wine comes from 1.05ha of organically certified Chardonnay vines. They are 35 years old on average and are planted at a density of 3,500 vines per hectare. The vineyard is east-facing and planted on limestone soil, which gives the resulting wine great freshness and fine minerality.
Whats in the bottle
100% Chardonnay
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Jean-Claude Boisset is a family-owned wine company founded in 1961. Jean-Claude’s first parcel of land was located in Gevrey-Chambertin and today the company is based in Les Ursulines, a former convent in Nuits-Saint-Georges, and run by his children Jean-Charles and Nathalie. Grégory Patriat, who had previously worked at the legendary Vosne-Romanée producer Domaine Leroy, joined in 2002 to revitalise and reinvent the house. He transformed Boisset into a ‘viniculteur’, working closely with the growers, guiding the wines from vine to bottle to achieve the desired quality. In 2018, they opened a new state-of-the-art winery, which reflects their modern, technical approach to winemaking.
The grapes were whole-bunch pressed for 2.5 hours. The must was cooled to 12˚C and transferred directly into 450L oak barrels without settling in order to keep the wine in contact with the lees. Fermentation took place over 10 months, before the wine was aged in toasted French oak barrels (20% new) without racking or bâtonnage to accentuate the more delicate, mineral qualities of the wine. The wine was very lightly filtered and fined, and bottled using gravity.
Region
Burgundy
Grape
Chardonnay
Country
France
Producer
Jean-claude Boisset
Vintage
2020
Types
White Wine
Size
750ml
2020 Organic Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits, Jean-Claude Boisset
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