LA CHARME AUX PRÊTRES 2020 (Domaine Sylvain PATAILLE)

DESCRIPTION

LA CHARME AUX PRÊTRES is a wine made with vines planted in 1949 in the place called La Charme Aux Prêtres, now renamed Les Rosey. The former name La Charme Aux Prêtres, however, traces the place's history since it is said to have belonged to the Church.

TERROIR

The Aligoté vines were planted on the La Charme Aux Prêtres place in 1949, at an altitude between 280 to 320 m. Oriented south / southwest, the plots offer a marl soil with Ostrea Acuminata dating from the Bajocian (-171 to -167 Ma), a geological period of the Middle Jurassic. These marls are about 15 meters thick and were deposited in a calm marine environment, such as oyster mud flats, which explains the presence of the Ostrea Acuminata, some small fossilized oysters.

These soils rich in marl tend to close the young wines that need to mature a few extra years in the cellar.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

The estate lost its Organic Agriculture certification to save its harvest in 2016, a catastrophic year when frost and hail devastated the Burgundy vineyards. The Organic label AB should be back on the bottles for the 2020 vintage.

Once harvested, the grapes are rigorously sorted and then pressed using a vertical press for 5 to 7 hours. The must is then transferred into old barrels for its alcoholic and malolactic fermentations. No yeasting is done, only the native yeasts are involved. The must then matures for 24 months in these same containers.

At the end of the aging phase, the must is drawn off without fining, it is lightly filtered if and only if this operation is necessary. It is then bottled with a light addition of SO2 to stabilize the wine.