2020 Au Pied du Mont Chauve Chas.-Mtr. 1er Cru Les Cailleret

France / Burgundy / Cote de Beaune / Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru Blanc

Au Pied du Mont Chauve Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Caillerets (owned by Domaines Famille Picard).

The plot is located on the southern part of the village on the hillside, two hundred meters above sea level. It faces south-southeast. Its sub-soil is made up of hard white rock, very stony. It is very limestony and is covered only by ten to twenty centimeters of clay, mainly composed of white marl. The vines were planted  in the early 1990's. The grapes are grown biodynamically. 

Grapes harvested by hand in crates, sorted on a sorting table if necessary and conveyed directly to the pneumatic press. Pressing of whole grapes for two and a half hour. The juice from stainless steel vats settles at 12 degrees overnight. Then the must is directly transferred to barrels to achieve alcoholic fermentation (traditional Burgundy vinification).
 
Aged 18 months on lees, including 12 months in oak barrels.
 
Au Pied du Mont Chauve – where does this unusual name come from? APMC came into being at the end of the 2000s; the Picard family was then the owner of vines historically established on the Chassagne-Montrachet, Saint-Aubin, and Puligny-Montrachet estates. It was, therefore, perfectly natural for the name Au Pied du Mont Chauve to take root in Francine Picard's mind. After all, the latter is the nickname given to the well-known Montrachet's hill. APMC is bestowed with an extremely rich plot in those three exceptional winegrowing villages with no less than 20 prestigious climats – specially delineated plots of land, specific to Burgundy vineyards – including Les Demoiselles, Les Caillerets and En Remilly. From a desire for synergy between terroir and the wine, the vines have been biodynamically cultivated for several years, thus the vinification process is the most natural possible. Clearly delineated, delicate and expressive, APMC 's vintages are truly precise jewels where the perfectly controlled ageing reveals a fresh density of unmistakable elegance on the palate.