2022 Le Grappin Les Boucherottes Beaune Premier Cru, France

From two contiguous parcels, one a 44-year-old selection massale , the other a 26-year-old
selection clonale , at the south end of the Beaune slope below the famous vineyard of Clos desMouches and next to Pommards grand climat Les Grands Epenots. Iron-rich white soil,rocky at the top, transitioning to more of a marl at the bottom. Having more limestone thanneighbouring Pommard, the wines have a fleshy mid-palate paired with suave, silky tannins.

Hand-harvested, chilled overnight, and sorted, 5% of the harvest was destemmed and placedat the bottom of a wooden vat, the rest of the clusters were put on top for a no SO2 nativefermentation. The fruit was untouched with one pigage each of the last two days of
fermentation on skins, then pressed on the 13th day and left to finish sugars in tank. The winespent 18 months in a mix of 300L to 500L barrels of ages between two and six years (no newwood) and four 220L glass WineGlobes. Racked out of barrel under inert gas pressure, settledfor two weeks before being bottled under a DIAM 10 closure without fining nor filtration.