2022 Le Grappin Savigny-les-Beaune Rouge Cote de Beaune, France

From a 60-year-old parcel in Aux Fournaux that has been farmed organically since our firstvintage in 2011. Its located at the base of the slope providing better sunlight interception anddrainage than most Savigny villages vineyards, meaning the wine has fine definition and weightfor a villages appellation wine. Aux Fournaux is at the junction with Pernand-Vergelesses andAloxe-Corton, with racy fruits from the former and rocky tannins from the latter.

Hand-harvested, chilled overnight, and sorted, and placed in two vats; one concrete, one wood,for a native fermentation. After 10 days the wooden vat was dug out, destemmed and returnedto the vat to finish fermentation. The concrete vat was foot crushed on its 12th day to releasesome sugars to warm the ferment. Both tanks were pressed and assembled together after 13days on skins. The wine spent 12 months in 350L barrels aged between three and four years(no new wood). Racked out of barrel under inert gas pressure, settled for two weeks in tankbefore being bottled under a DIAM 10 closure without fining nor filtration.