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RULLY 2018

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Grape variety

100% Chardonnay.

Tasting notes

Coulour: Nice gold yellow color with emerald reflections.

Nose: The bouquet reveals very nice aromas of citrus and white flowers, with mineral notes and a very fine wood.

Palate: Round attack, this wine is well balanced and offers a palette of flavors (citrus, mineral, toasted breads, butter). A nice length and a lot of freshness.

Wine and food pairing

Serve on its own, as an aperitif with light starters. Will also be a great companion to all seafood, terrines and fine fish.

Serving temperature

This wine reveals the best aromas and flavors when it is served at 14°C. (57°F.).

Ageing potential

It can be consumed now or laid down in a cellar for the next 3 years.

Origin

This appellation of the "Côte Chalonnaise" sometimes resembles the wines of the Côte de Beaune, both on red wines and on white wines. The Rully vineyard is located not far from the magnificent vineyards of Puligny Montrachet and Meursault to the north, Mercurey and Givry to the south.

The vineyard of Rully is very old, it was developed by the Dukes of Burgundy. Its vineyard extends over hills of more than 200 meters of altitude overlooking the Saône plain.

Vinification and maturing

The grapes are harvested by hand and after pressing the grapes, a cold settling of 12 hours at 8°C. (46°F.) is made. Then the juice was put in tank and in barrels (15% new one) for both fermentation alcoholic and malolactic and aged 10 months on its fine lees.

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. T

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.