CÔTE-RÔTIE BASSENON 2018 (Yves CUILLERON)

DESCRIPTION

Bassenon is a Côte Rôtie wine made from a plots blend planted on the southern slopes of the Semon village, at the foot of which flows the Bassenon stream which lends its name to this wine.

It is also a blend of white and black grapes as it is authorized by the single Côte Rôtie designation, more precisely a blend of Syrah and Viognier.

TERROIR

The terroir of the Bassenon wine plots consists of a soil of dark anatectites with cordierites, a rock resulting from a partial fusion of the original bedrock.
This partial fusion phenomenon took place around 400 million years ago, when the two main emerged continents, Gondwana and Armorica, came together and collided, causing locally a temperature and pressure modification which led to a partial fusion of the rocks in presence, then a recrystallization of this magma in new metamorphic rocks.

The anatectites of the Semon village are the result of a partial fusion of paragneiss, and the presence of cordierite (unmelted grain of the initial rock) indicates that the fusion took place in a context of high temperature but low pressure.

If these rocks are close to the original one, they differ from it by their structure and their mineralogical composition.

WINEGROWING& WINEMAKING

The grapes are grown according to the principles of the Sustainable Agriculture, that is to say with treatments carried out only when necessary and depending on the weather. Insecticides are not used.

The harvest is done manually, and the grapes are vinified plot by plot.
After a severe sorting, they are partially destemmed then crushed before being placed in open vats for alcoholic fermentation. The juice maceration with the skins lasts about three weeks.
The must is then pressed and the juice is transferred to oak barrels for a 18 months ageing.

At the end of the ageing phase, the musts from the different plots are blended, fined, then bottled.

The bottle is sealed with a DIAM30® cork stopper which guarantees the absence of TCA contamination of the wine (or cork taste)