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 19^th  ,2019 (Root day).
Selection: hand-sorted in the vineyard and on arrival in the winery
Yield: 48.5 hl/ha

Grapes not crushed and vatted by gravitaty.
No yeast addition.
Maceration: pre-fermentation, cold  (12-15°C) for 5 days.
Length of maceration: 17 days.
Cap-punched once a day until mid-fermentation and a light pumping-over until the end of vatting time.
Pressing with the vertical press.

Length: 16 months
Type: in barrels.
Percentage of new barrels: 29%
Toasting: long and slow.
Source of wood: Allier “grains fins”, Cîteaux.
No racking.
Light and soft filtration. No fining.

December 10^th, 2020 (root day)
Limited to 4621 bottles.