2021 Domaine Guy & Yvan Dufouleur Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits Rouge, Burgundy, FranceABOUT THIS WINE The Domaine grows both Pinot Noir and Chardonnay on this interesting site, which is divided into two plots on a hillside with east facing sun exposure. Varietal Composition: 100% Pinot Noir Elaboration: Sorting in the winery. Enzymage, yeasting, cold pre fermentation maceration for one week, daily pigeage, with warm maceration for color extraction. Vatting of three weeks. Aged for 10 months in 500 L oak barrels, no new wood. Malolactic

Foillard’s hallmark vinification—organic farming

We vinify it with wild yeasts and without the addition of any foreign element at temperatures between 26ºC and 28ºC for several weeks

Though the ownership has changed several times

Lime-clay soils are dominant here

planted primarily between 1900 and 1960

economic upheaval and two wars interrupted production for almost 30 years but

Then the aging ends in stainless steel tank always with all their lees for another 7 months

A few years ago

They touch the wines as little as possible in the cellar and racks only once

it was not until 1989 that the winery began to sell all of their grapes as wine under their own label

It is a magnum/jeroboam only release

and passion