MARANGES 1er CRU LA FUSSIÈRE RED WINE 2022 (Vincent BACHELET)

TERROIR

The Maranges vineyard consists of a single hillside facing east, south-east and south. It is a very fine, well-drained hillside, whose parent rock is composed of Jurassic limestone marl covered with scree and silt. White wines are rarely produced here, accounting for just 5 hectares and 5% of the designation's production. They are generally rich and full-bodied, with good minerality and exotic fruit aromas.

The locality La Fussière 1er Cru faces due south, at an altitude of between 300 and 350 metres. It runs almost the entire length of the 1er Cru hillside, with the renowned Clos-Rousseau de Santenay at the top. It produces some of the finest wines in the appellation.

The vines planted here are around 18 years old.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

The vines are managed according to the principles of an "intelligent" sustainable agriculture. Treatments on the vines are carried out only when absolutely necessary.

The grapes are harvested by hand, sorted and then completely destemmed. The skin maceration lasts a fortnight in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats.

Actions of Punching down (an operation which consists of pushing the marc cap floating at the top of the vat into the liquid must) and Pumping over (an operation which consists of removing the juice from the vat bottom and pouring it back into the vat top to reincorporate the cap of marc into the must) are carried out regularly during the alcoholic fermentation to facilitate maceration and optimise the gentle extraction of the grape's constituents.

Once the maceration phase is complete, the must is pressed by light pressing. The first pressed juices are blended with the free-run juice, then racked into new oak barrels (between 15% and 30%) and into oak barrels of several wines for the malolactic fermentation and a 11-month ageing phase.

The must is then racked into stainless steel vats to rest for 2 months before bottling. The wine is neither fined nor filtered.

The bottle is sealed with a DIAM8® cork stopper which guarantees the absence of TCA contamination of the wine (or cork taste)