CHÂTEAU DE MERCEY
BOURGOGNE HAUTES-CÔTES DE BEAUNE CHARDONNAY 2018
CHÂTEAU DE MERCEY
BOURGOGNE HAUTES-CÔTES DE BEAUNE CHARDONNAY 2018
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Grape variety
Tasting notes
Nose : pleasant aromas of fresh fruit and almonds.
Palate : a mineral and fruity attack, a supple and generous wine.
Wine and food pairing
Serving temperature
Ageing potential
Origin
Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Beaune parcels are lyre-shaped. This technique allows the sun to shine within the vine rows and ensures quick ripening and prevents diseases.
Vinification and maturing
Once at the winery, the grapes went in a bladder press: squeezed from the inside of the press, they received an equal amount of pressure, ensuring the best quality of juice with a minimal exposure to oxygen.
The must was then racked for 16 to 24 hours in a cold tank to be clarified before starting the fermentation process. Once the alcoholic fermentation was achieved, the wine was casked for an 8-month ageing period in 228 Liters oak barrels on thin lees.
Stirring is occasional (twice a month) until the malolactic fermentation. It prevents the wine from oxydation and helps developing complex aromas.
To complete the ageing process, we use a proportion of 20% new barrels to give more structure to the wine and bring fullness. The malolactic fermentation was completed at 100%.
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.
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