100% Pinot Noir – 2012 – Plot work
2000 numbered bottles

This cuvée is exclusively made up of a selection of our best Pinots Noirs d’Ecueil from Les Chaillots and Les Hautes Vignes plots, planted in 1969 and classified Premier Cru. They evolve on clay-limestone soils with a grass cover of one in two roads where we are developing our cultivation practices towards reasoned methods.
Only the 2012 harvest is included in this bottling, a year that gave us magnificent grapes in reasonable quantities, with a sugar / acid balance worthy of the greatest vintages.

The Extra Noir is vinified in oak barrels, themselves made with wood from the Ecueil forest, by the Tonnellerie de Champagne. As in all our cuvées, the vinification takes place as respectfully as possible of the wine, avoiding any unnecessary manipulation and intervention. The grape juice is sung from the harvest and only comes out when bottling, after a slow improvement and natural stabilization. In the barrels, in contact with the lees, the wine gains in complexity, power and sweetness. To balance this roundness, we keep all the liveliness and intrinsic freshness of the grape by not carrying out malolactic fermentation. The “Extra Brut” dosage (5 g / l) completes the full-ness and delicacy of the expression of the Pinot Noir d’Ecueil.

After the bottling in April 2013, this cuvée is disgorged in October 2019 after more than 6 years in the cellar.

DVE Guide « Dry and rich white of blacks which we appreciate the fuselage »

Food and wine pairing: gilthead sea bream with fennel or capon stuffed with figs.
On the go: a mushroom omelet