Santenay

Santenay

Champs Claude

Dégustation

  • Tasting notes: The nose develops beautiful aromas of red fruit. The palate is full-bodied and elegant; lovely tannins reveal themselves on the finish, ensuring good ageing potential. Ageing potential: 7-9 years
  • Production: approximately 5,000 bottles per year.

Terroir

  • Area: 0.95 hectares
  • Location: Plot located at the eastern end of the village below the Chassagne Montrachet 1er cru ‘Morgeot’.
  • Orientation: south
  • Grape variety: Pinot Noir
  • Age: Half are old vines (65 years old) and the other half are younger (45 years old)
  • Soil: Clay-limestone.

Viticulture

  • Cultivation method: Sustainable, without herbicides or insecticides.
  • Harvesting: Manual
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Vinification

  • Vinification: The grapes arrive in crates at the winery where they are sorted and then 100% destemmed. They are then placed in cold concrete vats (below 10°C), where cold pre-fermentation maceration begins and lasts for about a week. When the temperature rises, alcoholic fermentation begins; colour and fruit are extracted through pumping over and gentle punching down. After three weeks, the wine is transferred to barrels.
  • Ageing: 100% in barrels, 15% of new, for 12 months. The wine is then blended in stainless steel vats and bottled after light filtration after 18 months.