CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET 1er CRU "LES CHAMPS-GAIN" RED WINE 2022 (Domaine Sylvain Morey)

DESCRIPTION

The CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET 1er Cru Champs-Gains is a red wine made from very old Pinot noir vines planted in the area known as Les Champs-Gains. This parcel, renowned for the production of heady red wines, has been gradually replanted with Chardonnay, and Sylvain MOREY is one of the last two producers of this Pinot Noir vintage.
By combining harvest date, whole crop and duration of maceration, he obtains increasingly fine and distinguished wines.
On the rich terroir of this area, the wines are distinguished by their length,their strength and their extreme finesse of constitution.

TERROIR

The plot Les Champs-Gains faces south-east and is situated at an altitude of approximately 210 metres. The soil is made up of clayey or silty-clay colluvium of a reddish-brown colour with abundant limestone debris masking the Jurassic limestone substrate. This debris comes from alteration and disintegration of the substratum, or even fragments of limestone broken up by alternating freezing and thawing and brought down by gravity or runoff onto this plot.

In this deep and rich soil, the grapes always ripen earlier than those planted on the neighbouring plot of Caillerets.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

The grapes are harvested manually and sorted on site before being transported to the winery where 50% of the must is destemmed. The destemmed grapes are not crushed. The must macerates for about 24 days in vats with daily pumping over for a gentle extraction of the tannins and the color. The alcoholic fermentation is made by the indigenous yeasts.

After the maceration phase, the musts are pressed and then transferred into barrels of 350 liters and 228 liters, of which 25% are new.
Pressed juice and free-run juice are mixed, and the malolactic fermentation is quietly completed in barrels during the fine lees ageing phase, which lasts about 20 months.

The must is then racked into vats where it rests for another two months before bottling without filtration.