Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits, Rouge, 2020

Overlooking the Côte from Gevrey-Chambertin as far as the Bois de Corton, the Hautes Côtes de Nuits are imbued with a wild beauty. The vine adapts to all the well-exposed hillsides and the altitude, between 300 and 400 meters, implies a later maturity than the vineyards of the côte as well as a usually more marked acidity.

The red wines of the 2020 vintage stand out for their incredible colors, with beautiful sustained colors, a mark of great richness in anthocyanins. The ideal conditions of sunshine and the heat during maturation led to concentrated wines, with character, but without being heavy. Like the white wines, they have kept freshness and offer gourmet profiles on black fruits such as blackberry, blueberry, black cherry...

Despite its regional appellation, this wine is carefully aged, worthy of those reserved for its illustrious neighbors on the Côte. Part of the cuvée is aged in oak barrels aged from 2 to 3 wines to allow the aromas to express themselves as well as possible and not to dominate the structure of this delicate wine. No racking is carried out to leave the wine on its lees and the batches are then put back together for 2 to 3 months to clarify the wines as naturally as possible.