Wines

The plantings of Chardonnay in the hills of Echevronne become this simple but satisfying white. The round and supple texture of this wine belies the reputation of the Hautes-Côtes as the home of searingly acidic and underripe wines. Serious work in the vineyards has reduced yields with resulting levels of concentration and ripeness that are rare to find in this appellation. The wine is barrel-fermented and is also aged in barrel (not new). Bottling normally occurs just before the following year’s harvest. There is a mere 600 bottles available for the US market.

This wine is sourced from the family’s vineyards in Echevronne. It is a classic red of the area with exuberant red cherry fruit playing in the nose and on the palate.  It is vinified in the same fashion as the more important appellations of the domaine: a brief period of cold maceration followed by a cuvaison that extends for about two weeks accompanied by a daily remontage and pigeage. The lot of this wine destined for the USA is usually bottled, unfiltered, after 15 months of élevage in barrel.  About four barrels (1,200 bottles) are purchased annually for the US market.

This is a classic rendition of this appellation with an expression of a range of seductive red fruits that sit on a base of soft and supple tannins. Elegance, finesse and purity are the watchwords here. Sourced from a series of vineyard sites within the appellation, this wine harkens back to an earlier era in the Côte d’Or when the wines of Savigny were referred to as “chat” (cat) in recognition of the delicate, lithe wines that made this appellation famous. We import four barrels (1,200 bottles) of this wine per annum.

This vineyard sits on a subtle slope on the fringes of Savigny that borders Beaune and leads to the road that curves north to Pernand-Vergelesses. The wine is marked by a charming wild, red-berry fruitiness but brings more backbone to its frame than its sister wine at the village level. There are two barrels (600 bottles) reserved for our use in the USA.

This is the most substantial of the red wines of the domaine. It carries the most color, the most weight and the most structure. Still, it retains the essentially silky, seductive qualities that mark the offerings of this domaine. The vineyard itself is superbly situated in the northern tier of the appellation where much of the best of this appellation can be found. It is encircled by three neighboring 1er Crus: Grèves, Cent Vignes and Bressandes. We purchase two barrels (600 bottles) of this wine annually.