Domaine Stéphane Magnien Charmes-Chambertin grand Cru 2022

Alcohol: 13%

Grape(s): Pinot Noir

Localization: Côte de Nuits, Burgundy, France

Tasting Notes: A spicy and very fresh nose is comprised by notes of purple fruit, earth and sauvage hints. The seductive velvet-textured medium-bodied flavors possess good punch and power on the mouthcoating, lingering and balanced finale. This is certainly quite good but it doesn't have the extra dimension of the Monts Luisants.

Food Pairing: Duck, Goose, and Game Birds

Terroir: Coming from a Mazoyères-Chambertin vine, its shallow soil is characterized by a substrate of gravel and yellow clay. Plot planted in 1980-1986.

Vine growing: Vines pruned in Guyot. The branches are crushed and spread on the ground to improve its aeration and its microbial life. These plots have always been maintained only by plowing. Pruning, wood pulling, evasivating, lifting, leaf stripping, as well as harvest are among the main works carried out by hand.

Winemaking: Manual harvest, maceration for 5 to 7 days, fermentation with indigenous yeasts at controlled temperature (max 33 ° C), punching down, and pumping over. The aging is done for 12 months in barrels (35% new barrels, first sedimentation), racking, then 2 to 3 months of aging in stainless steel tanks, (second sedimentation), then bottled without fining and generally without filtration.

Aging potential: from 16 to 18 years old.