2018 Au Pied du Mont Chauve Bourgogne Pinot Noir

France / Burgundy / Bourgogne Rouge

Au Pied du Mont Chauve Bourgogne Pinot Noir (owned by Domaines Famille Picard).

Old Pinot Noir vines located in the Côte Chalonnaise and mostly planted in the 1970s. The vines are grown organically. Mechanical soil tillage. They are pruned in simple guyot with long sticks and disbudded every other eye, so the bunches are well aerated and beautiful.
Grapes are harvested by hand in crates, sorted on a sorting table and destemmed at 100%, the whole berries are conveyed into vats in small stainless steel wagons so as not to crush the raw material. Traditional Burgundy vinification, in open thermoregulated vats.

Aged 15 months, including 12 months in oak barrels (in barrels and casks). Light filtration before bottling.
 
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.