Description
Mâcon-Cruzille 2022 – Le Clos des Avoueries – Limestone
Appellation: Mâcon-Cruzille – Cuvée: Le Clos des Avoueries “Calcaire” – Vintage: 2022
Grape variety: Chardonnay 100% – Colour: White – Yield: 49 hl/ha
Region: Burgundy – Alcohol: 12.5% – Capacity: 75cl
ORIGIN / PRODUCTION
- Clos des Avoueries is a high-altitude vineyard (390m), surrounded by woods and murgers, with an easterly exposure facing Mont Blanc. It’s a château monopoly.
- Limestone” micro-parcel with 10 cm of red clay followed by a compact limestone slab. The Mineral spirit!
- Ecocert-certified organic farming.
- Full ploughing and manual harvesting.
- Natural winemaking with a single input: a low dose of So2.
- 6-month alcoholic fermentation with indigenous yeasts.
- Malolactic fermentation in barrels several years old.
- Bottled with light filtration.
- Untreated corks, selected after batch tasting.
TASTING
EYE: Pale gold, limpid, brilliant, slight green highlights.
NOSE: Very fine, with greedy floral notes and a beautiful minerality. Menthol freshness, typical of this terroir, then appears.
PALATE: The attack is fresh and refined, with subtle balance. Smoky aromas of gunflint and apricot. The finish is fine, fresh and very salivating.
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