SANTENAY PREMIER CRU BEAUREGARD

SANTENAY PREMIER CRU
BEAUREGARD 2018

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2017 2018

Grape variety

100% Chardonnay.

Tasting notes

Colour: Pale gold yellow colour with green reflects.
Bouquet: The bouquet is very elegant offering aromas of white flowers and mineral notes, delicately woody.
Palate: On the palate, this is a lively and fresh wine with nice structure and delicate flavors: fruity (citrus), flowery (acacia) and mineral notes. A very racy wine, refined, well balanced and rich with a very long persistancy.

Wine and food pairing

This elegant white Burgundy will be delicious on its own, as an aperitif, but also with grilled salmon, crustaceans and white poultry.

Serving temperature

Serve idealy at a temperature of about 14°C. (57°F).

Ageing potential

Can be kept in the cellar and appreciated from 5 to 8 years after the vintage.

Origin

Santenay wine is produced in the communes of Santenay and Remigny in Côte de Beaune of Burgundy. The Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) Santenay may be used for red and white wine with respectively Pinot Noir and Chardonnay as the main grape variety.

The production consists of almost 85% red wine, and a little over 15% of white wine. There are just Premier Cru vineyards within the Santenay AOC.

The higher ground is grayish limestone while the slopes lower down are composed of marl and calcareous rock from the middle Jurassic.

Vinification and maturing

100% handmade harvest. At their arrival in the cellar, the grapes are immediately pressed and settled in thermo-regulated stainless steel tank during 24 hours. A racking separate the bad lies to the clear juices. These juices are then placed in 228 L. barrels for the alcoolic fermentation using Burgundian selected yeasts. Maturing process 100% in barrel (35% new ones) during 11 months.

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 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!

SANTENAY PREMIER CRU BEAUREGARD 2018