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Sylvain Morey Santenay Rouge 1er Cru "Grand Clos Rousseau” 2019
$76.00

Sylvain Morey Santenay Rouge 1er Cru "Grand Clos Rousseau” 2019

About the wine:

Appellation: AOC Santenay 1er Cru

•Varietals: Pinot Noir (100%)

In The Vineyard:

• Parcel Names, Slopes, and Locations: From .41 ha of vines in the Grand Clos Rousseau 1er Cru, on the border of Maranges

• Soil Types and Compositions: Limestone-clay
• Vine Age, Training, and Density: Trained in Cordon de Royat and Guyot and planted in 1974 at 10,000 vines/ha

• Average Yields: 45-50 hl/ha

• Average Harvest Date and Type: Manual harvest, early-mid September

In The Cellar:

• Fermentation: After 50% destemming and a 1-2 day cold soak, wine ferments spontaneously in stainless-steel tanks. Cu- vaison lasts c. 3 weeks.

• Pressing: Pneumatic pressing
• Time on Lees: Wine remains on its lees until assemblage prior to bottling

• Malolactic Fermentation: Spontaneous, in barrel in the spring

• Élevage: 20 months in 350-l and 228-l oak barrels (35% new) followed by 2 months in stainless-steel tanks

• Press Wine: Blended after pressing
• Fining and Filtration: Fined with Casein and unfiltered

• Sulfur: Applied at harvest, during élevage, and at bottling, 20-25 mg/l free

In The Glass:

Planted by my Sylvain's grandfather Albert with his sons, Jean Marc and Bernard, this plot, close to Maranges, gives birth to wines that are always very fine and close in character to some Côtes de Nuits wines. It is often one of the last plots to ripen, and produces more tannic and concentrated wines than those of Chassagne.

About the producer:

Two of the hallmarks of Burgundy are the minuscule size and the fractured distribution of the small domains that line the Cote d’Or.  Centuries of division by inheritance and often family discord have fractured once-larger land holdings into microscopic parcels.  Domains have become so small (and their fractured holding so atomic) that it is has become doubtful how these domains can continue to be passed down to the next generation.  In the case of Domaine Sylvain Morey, this difficult tradition continues with the dissolution of Domaine Jean-Marc Morey. Jean-Marc’s son Sylvain and his sister Caroline split their father’s holdings in 2014, making this already small family domaine much smaller. (Domaine Jean-Marc Morey was founded in 1981 when Domaine Albert Morey was split between his two sons Jean-Marc and Bernard.)  We feel fortunate to continue our relationship with these familiar family parcels, however small they may be, through the impressive and thoughtful work of Sylvain.