MEURSAULT 2018 (Domaine Maillard)

TERROIR

The MEURSAULT cuvée from the MAILLARD estate comes from sixty years old vines that are located in an alluvial fan whose coarse deposits on the surface were carried by the surrounding rivers and cover a bedrock composed of marls and limestones dating from the middle and upper Jurassic.

The wines that come from this part of the vineyard have different profiles but always in an elegant and racy range. The richness in clay of the soils gives ample and round wines.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

The grapes are harvested manually and the bunches are carefully sorted on site in the vineyard: only the most beautiful and ripe ones are kept.
Once they arrive at the cellar, the bunches are immediately pressed by a low pressure and very slow pneumatic pressing. The juice which flows out is then vatted to be settled and then racked into 228-liter barrels (including a small part of new barrels) to carry out its alcoholic and malolactic fermentation.

It is then aged in these same barrels for 12 to 18 months depending on the vintage, and it is regularly stirred in order to put its lees in suspension and to bring roundness to the wine.

Once the ageing is finished, the must is fined and filtered before bottling.