CÔTE DE BEAUNE-VILLAGES 2021
CÔTE DE BEAUNE-VILLAGES 2021
Grape variety
Tasting notes
Nose: Red berry fruits (cherry), spices and a discreet woodiness
Palate: An elegant wine, soft and pleasant, presenting a fat, strong attack with mature tannins. This is a supple, fine and elegant wine.
Wine and food pairing
Ageing potential
This wine can be enjoyed now or it can be kept for up to 2 to 4 years in optimal conditions.
History
Vinification and maturing
Vinification in wooden vats followed by maturing in barrels for around 10 months, 20% new oak.
Vintage : 2021
Nature certainly set a challenge for the winegrower and the winemaker with this vintage.
It began with very warm temperatures at the end of February which led to an early bud break.
The historic frost in April then destroyed young shoots that had emerged too early, significantly affecting the future harvest. Changing weather continued to characterize the vintage through to the harvests.
There were spells of rain from May to mid-August, obliging winegrowers to be constantly on the alert. The only periods of relative calm were during flowering, which took place in good conditions for the formation of the future fruit, and the véraison (colour change), which benefited from the return of the sun from mid-August.
The vagaries of the weather contributed to the development of outbreaks of disease, which were contained thanks to the tireless efforts of our winegrowers. In spite of this, considerable sacrifices had to be made to ensure a high level of quality, and rigorous sorting of the fruit in the vineyard and on arrival at the winery was necessary.
This vintage also required a major technical effort. The vinifications had to be carried out with meticulous attention and precision with a particular care over the extraction of colouring matter, the balance of the structure and the aromatic expression of the red wines, and of the freshness, balance of acidity and aromatic potential of the white wines.