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.
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The vine
Plot /climat
Les Tillets (total surface area 11ha 20a).
History
Old word for the lime tree, very common in this area and frequently used for medicinal purposes in the middle ages.
Soil
Brown limestone type with a layer of humus and gravel on a hard rocky base.
Our plot(s)
25a 83ca planted in 1962 at an altitude of between 320 and 340m.
The wine
Description
100% Chardonnay from handpicked grapes; vinified and raised in oak casks.
Taste
The old vineyard gives little contracted berries, richness that echoes to the wine Similar to Puligny-Montrachet owing to the location and altitude of the plot; wines have elegant, mineral tones with good persistency in the mouth, brisk and distinguished.
Serving temperature
12/14°C. It is recommended to decant recent vintages so as to enhance the aroma.
The vintage
- At last ! Following several vintages hit by serious hailstorms (2012,13,14) 2015 started with mild, dull but early march fair conditions. Several dry and sunny periods and rainfalls at the right time accompanied paced the development of vegetation ; hot summer, the grapes were ripe and sound by the 1st of september for a great harvest. The grapes were gold in colour, perfect ripeness ! the wines are pure and elegant, well balanced and pleasantly rich on the palate.