COLLECTION PREMIERS CRUS
VOUGEOT
Premier Cru "Les Crâs"
This Premier Cru shows a kinship with Chambolle-Musigny. Its stony soil, with excellent drainage, yields a perfumed and elegant wine.
Deep and luminous in color, with dark purplish-violet tones that signal intensity.
On the nose, violet and red or black fruits (raspberry, blackberry, and blackcurrant) dominate. With age, notes of underbrush and truffle emerge.
On the palate, the shoulders are broad, yet the tannins remain refined. The attack is forthright.
- Total area under this appellation: 3ha 74a 71ca
- Area under production at the domaine: 31a 67ca
- Soil: Hard limestone with little clay
- Altitude: 240 meters
- Grape varieties: 100% Pinot Noir
- Average age of vines: 73 years
- Harvesting: By hand exclusively, hand-sorted in the winery
- Destemming: According to the quality of the vintage
- Maturing: 30 to 40% new oak barrels
A PERSONAL REFLECTION
Terroir, ORIGIN,
and identity
The toponym “Crâs” likely derives from crai, a medieval term referring to stony subsoils composed of rounded pebbles over clay—residues from glacial-era alluvium that once filled the Saône Valley.
The soil must have been stony and calcareous. The form ‘crai’ is medieval, ans is spelled diffrently depending on the location: crai – cray – craie – cras – crée. Vines thrive here when the crai is covered by a deep enough layer of topsoil. The vineyards lie between 240 and 280 meters in elevation.
The soils are brown limestone and shallow toward the top, giving way to fine-textured clay-marl lower down where the slope fades. These soils and subsoils closely resemble those in the northern sector of Clos de Vougeot.
