The citadel, founded in around 1000 AD, derives its name from the Nuicthons, or walnut trees, which were abundant nearby. The strong ramparts protected its inhabitants, nobles, wine growers and religious communities. In the 18th century the town started to export its wine, and several wine merchants sprung up in the following century. The Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin was created here in the 1930s. To help protect the wine industry, badly hit by the Great Depression, they created the Saint-Vincent Tournante wine festival and the Tastevinage seal of approval.
Technical sheet
The appellation
The vineyards, solidly seated on middle Jurassic sedimentary formations, are cut in two by the town, where the Meuzin stream flows out of the Combe de la Serrée. To the north lies Vosne-Romanée, to the south, Premeaux-Prissey. Being exposed to a variety of directions, the characteristic tastes vary, with more rustic wines to the south of the village. Nuits wines are only at their best after several years, and are ideal for patient collectors.
The vine
Surface: 3.0771 ha
Exposure: South
Plantings: 1975 at the bottom of the clos. 2013 at the top of the clos
Geographic situation: Nuits-Saint-Georges lies on a bed of Comblanchien marble, on the hillside at the base of the Combe de la Serrée, in the sediment cone of the Hautes-Côtes.
Grape variety: 100% Pinot Noir
Soil and subsoil: soil very chalky
Planting density: 13 600 vines/ha
Rootstock: only clones.
Organic agriculture: since 2012.
Official approval Ecocert in 2015.
Pruning: Guyot
Vineyard news: Earthing-up of the vines in winter. Spraying of nettle and rhubarb, horsetail, yarrow, tansy, comfrey tea during each treatment. Biodynamic preparations of 500 and 501 at the end of the winter and of
The wine
Harvest dates: September 14th, 16th and 17th, 2019 (leaf and fruit days).
Selection in the vineyard and on arival in the winery.
Yield: 20 hl/ha
20% of whole bunches. Not crushed and vatted by gravity.
No yeast addition.
Maceration: pre-fermentation, cold (12-
Length of maceration: 19 days.
Cap-punched once
Length: 16 months in oak barrels.
New barrels: 30%
Origin of wood: Cîteaux, Tronçais
Light and soft filtration.
No fining.
December 7th, 2020 (fruit day) for magnums.
December 9th 2020 for bottles and jeroboams (root day)
Limited to 6378 bottles, 600 magnums, 60 jeroboams.
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7bis, rue de l’Eglise
21700 Premeaux Prissey
France
Phone:
+33(0)3 80 62 48 25
Fax:
+33(0)3 80 61 25 44
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