SAVIGNY-LÈS-BEAUNE PREMIER CRU `LES VERGELESSES`

SAVIGNY-LÈS-BEAUNE PREMIER CRU "LES VERGELESSES" 2018

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2017 2018

Grape variety

100% Chardonnay.

Tasting notes

Colour: Light gold colour
Bouquet: Expressive nose of minerals and white flowers, very balanced with notes of honey suckle and white pepper
Palate: Full attack on citrus fruit, with toasted aromas. The wine is full fruited in the mouth, with a lots of freshness, a vivacious elegance and persistence. A quite lively, mature, well-structured and harmonious wine.

Serving temperature

Drink ideally at a temperature of 12 to 14 °C. (53-57°F.)

Ageing potential

Can be kept in the cellars for 6 to 8 years, in good storage conditions.

History

Savigny-lès-Beaune wine is produced in the commune of Savigny, in the famous Burgundian Côte de Beaune.

The Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) Savigny-lès-Beaune may be used for red and white wine with respectively Pinot Noir and Chardonnay as the main grape variety. The name of the appellation is sometimes written simply as Savigny, without the lès-Beaune part.

The production consists of slightly over 85 per cent red wine, and slightly less than 15 per cent white wine. There are no Grand Cru vineyards within Savigny-lès-Beaune.

The Premier Cru vineyards, called "les Vergelesses" are located at the borderline between the towns of Pernand and Savigny, with southern exposure.

Vinification and maturing

Hand harvested followed by bunch selection. The juices are cooled then settled. The musts are then matured in casks and vats during fermentation and follow the same vinification process as the great Burgundy wines. Stirring and ageing over lees.

Vintage : 2018

It is quite hardly to sum up the vintage 2018 in a few words! Winter, grey and humid was followed by a capricious spring, subject to frosts and alternating times of sunshine and storms on an almost daily basis from May to the mid-June, making this period particularly stressful for our people in the vineyards.

Then came an incredible time of nice weather, hot, very hot and even heatwave periods until the end of… October!

Another particular vintage which looks like no other! As rainfalls episodes were particularly localized, we had to deal with very different degree of ripeness from a plot to another, depending of the water volume received by each vineyard.

In 2018, as in other French wine region, quality and quantity were very satisfactory on our whole vineyard and were are very pleased with the quality of the vinified juices currently ageing in 228 L. Burgundian barrels in our cellars.

Harvest took place on our vineyards between the end of August (27th) and the 18th of September under a hot and persistent autumn sun. Even if the weather was very nice, the harvest period was very long and demanding in the vineyards as well as in the winery, due to the particularly different stages of ripeness. This is, without doubt, what one will retain from this harvest: so different ripeness degrees and so very different harvesting time from a village to another and even from a parcel to another in the same vineyard!

White wines were mostly harvested first in order to keep a nice acidity on this particularly solar vintage.