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
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
- After a very cold winter the vegetation growth started quickly as from end of march. The 28th-29th frost had luckily not too much effect on our vines. They started to bloom beginning of june. Alternating cool and very hot spells in july and august made it difficult to decide the right tile for harvest. Finally we started on the 4th of September. Gold in colour the grapes were in perfect conditions ; the wines have a strong aroma and in the mouth, are well balanced, full and rich intasted.