2020 Fixin, Entre Deux Velles, Héritière Louis Remy, Burgundy
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The fruit has high-toned aromas of pomegranate and cherry with a floral edge. The texture is silky and approachable yet not lacking in tannin. The balance is light but very pleasant and perfect for mid-term ageing. Produced from the large east-facing lieu-dit down the slope from the premier crus Hervelets and Arvelets. This sees a cold soak before a fermentation with 10% whole clusters and ageing in cask (30% new) for 18 months.
Drink 2025 - 2035
Charles Curtis MW, Decanter.com (November 2021)
About this WINE
Domaine Louis Remy
Domaine Louis Rémy has been managed by Chantal Rémy since 1988. The 3.5 hectare domaine can trace its antecedents back all the way to 1821.
Chantal has continued the tradition of making gentle, not overtly powerful wines which nonetheless repay keeping, as well as holding back a proportion of the harvest so that the domaine can offer older vintages for sale.
Unfortunately a family split has led to certain vineyards such as Chambolle-Musigny premier cru Derrière La Grange along with village Chambolle-Musigny Fremières and Morey-St-Denis Aux Cheseaux going elsewhere from 2009.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director and author of the award-winning Inside Burgundy comprehensive handbook.
Fixin
Fixin is a wine appellation in the Burgundy region of France covering the communes of Brochon and Fixin – which was first elevated to AOC status in December 1936. White wines can be made from either Chardonnay or Pinot Blanc (Pinot Gris used to be permitted, but this grape variety was removed in 2011).
Red wines are sturdy and muscular, made principally from Pinot Noir, but they can have small quantities of the three white grapes in them. Situated just north of Gevrey-Chambertin, the red wines are often likened to miniature Gevreys.
- 108 hectares of village Fixin
- 22 hectares of Premier Cru vineyards (five in all). The best include Clos Napoléon, Clos de la Perrière
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or.
Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.
The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.
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The fruit has high-toned aromas of pomegranate and cherry with a floral edge. The texture is silky and approachable yet not lacking in tannin. The balance is light but very pleasant and perfect for mid-term ageing. Produced from the large east-facing lieu-dit down the slope from the premier crus Hervelets and Arvelets. This sees a cold soak before a fermentation with 10% whole clusters and ageing in cask (30% new) for 18 months.
Drink 2025 - 2035
Charles Curtis MW, Decanter.com (November 2021)
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