COLLECTION VILLAGES
NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES
Village "Les Plateaux"
They are full and firm, with a deep intense colour. Their aromas are rich and complex, suggestive of cherries, blackcurrants, animal pelts and truffles.
Their high tannin content provides them with a very firm structure, and the harmonious interplay between the tannins and the inherently rounded nature of these wines makes them full-bodied and solid.
- Total area under this appellation: 175ha 31a 91ca
- Area under production at the domaine: 69a 62ca
- Soil: Clay-limestone from middle Jurassic with fault relief
- Altitude: 280 meters
- Grape varieties: 100% Pinot Noir
- Average age of vines: 60 years
- Harvesting: By hand exclusively, hand-sorted in the winery
- Destemming: 100%
- Maturing: 30 to 40% new oak barrels
A PERSONAL REFLECTION
Terroir, ORIGIN,
and identity
The Nuits-Saint-Georges vineyards not only consist of hollows and rising ground, but there are also flat areas which must have impressed our ancestors, perhaps even delighted them. Some of the plots found along the Côte are named accordingly, as is the case for “Les Plateaux.”
The vineyards of Nuits-Saint-Georges are located on the Côte and along its foothills. The landscape is characterized by faults in sedimentary layers dating back to the middle Jurassic era. These faults form a series of steps descending to the major fault, where the Jurassic strata have dropped hundreds of meters and now lie under the marls and conglomerates that fill in the Bressan basin. On the far side of the main fault, Oligocène marls lie to the north of Nuits. Clayey loams cover the fault in many places. They are found combined with red loams on beds of flint together with material from the alluvial fans and fluvial alluvial soils from the Meuzin valley, hosting a small river which divides the Nuits vineyards into two parts, one lying north of it and one south. Vines are not planted above 265 meters.
