Domaine Berthelemot is a family business based in Meursault and cultivating 15 hectares in the Côte de Beaune area (Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet, Pommard, Beaune....). Our pledge is to produce wines revealing the true quality characteristics of the land and take care to protect the environment. Our wines are certified "organic" from vintage 2021.
The vine
Plot /climat
Abbaye de Morgeot (total surface area 3ha98a)
History
Around 1150, cistercian monks from the abbey of Maizières built the Morgeot abbey in the hamlet of Chassagne.
Soil
Limestone marl, red- tinted with ferrous oxides on a layer of bathonian limestone pebbles.
Our plot(s)
53a 16ca planted in 1970 and 2006.
The wine
Description
100% Chardonnay from handpicked grapes; vinified and raised in oak casks.
Taste
Wines from this sector have a variety of aromas ranging from fresh fruit, white flowers and honey; in the mouth, they are opulent and well balanced, rich and mineral making them suitable for laying down .
Serving temperature
12/14°C. It is recommended to decant recent vintages so as to enhance the aroma.
The vintage
- 2023 - An year of plenitude. The 2023 spring weather was unsettled, with many storms that fortunately did not have damage on the vineyards. Thanks to a high rainfall in August, grapes were numerous and juicy. We feared that achieving perfect maturity would be a challenge because of the high volume of grapes, but the fruits finished ripening and the aromas concentrated extremely fast thanks to an unexpected heatwave that hit us at the beginning of September. It is also around that time that harvest started (on the 5th of September). Yeast did transform sugar into alcohol at a relatively slow pace, alcoholic fermentation finished in December. While tasting, we get a dominance of fruit driven aromas and a gourmet, elegant vintage. We note that 2023 is more refined than 2020 vintage for both reds and whites. What a blessed vintage!