Route de Bouze
Surface: 0,533 ha - parcel in a coomb (Route de Bouze-lès-Beaune)
Exposure: West-facing
Plantings: 1985/1986

La Plante
Surface: 0,218 ha - parcel in a coomb (route de Bouze-lès-Beaune)
Exposure: West-facing

Sous Sapins
Surface: 0,9003 ha - parcel in a coomb (route de Bouze-lès-Beaune)
Exposure: West-facing
Plantings: 1964/1965

Grape variety: 100% Pinot Noir

Soil and subsoil: Red, very rich in iron. Silty soil, very pebbly at the top of the plot

Planting density: 10 000 vines/ha

Total surface: 1,613 ha

Rootstock: massal selection only.

Organic agriculture: since 1998. Received official approval ECOCERT in 1999

Training style: Guyot

Vineyard news: Ullage planted out in autumn. Earthing-up of the vines in winter. Spraying of nettle and rhubarb, horsetail, yarrow, tansy, comfrey tea during each treatment. Biodynamic preparation of 500 and 501 at the end of the winter and of 501 in spring before the flower. Suckers removed in spring.

Harvest date: September  8^th, 2018 (fruit day).
Selection: hand-sorted in the vineyard and on arrival in the winery
Yield: 33 hl/ha

Grapes not crushed and vatted by gravity.
No yeast addition.
Maceration: pre-fermentation, cold (12-15°C) for 5 days.
Length of maceration: 20 days.
Light pumping-over until the end of vatting time.

Length: 16 months in barrels and 1 month in tank.
New barrels: 27%
Origin of wood: Allier “fine grains”, Cîteaux.
No racking. Light and soft filtration. No fining.

December 5^th , 2019 (leaf day)
Limited to 3177 bottles.