Domaine Berthelemot is a family business based in Meursault and cultivating 15 hectares in the Côte de eaune area (Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet, Pommard, Beaune....). Our pledge is to produce wines revealing the true quality characteristics of the land and take care of the vine and its environment. Our wines are certified organic from the 2021 vintage.
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The vine
Plot /climat
This site is named "Sous le bois de Noël et Belles Filles".
History
This name is almost an ode to the legendary beauty of the nuns who used to stroll in these fields from their convent in Changey, above Pernand.
Soil
On a gradient of 8 / 10% of limestone rock and shallow, red-ochre topsoil of alluvium and ferruginous clay.
Our plot(s)
26 ares at an altitude of 280 / 300 meters, planted in 1985 on a slope facing due east, exposed to the morning sunlight.
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Age of vines
- Planting date Surface
- 1985 11,09a
- 1985 14,93a
The wine
Description
100% Chardonnay from handpicked grapes; vinified and raised in oak casks.
Taste
Gold in colour with a greenish hue: on the nose it gives both floral and mineral notes and in the mouth, it is fresh and vivacious with a fine saline finish, typical of many wines from the Pernand fields.
Serving temperature
12/14°C. Recent vintages may be decanted to enhance the aroma.
The vintage
- March was sunny and budburst happened too early. 5th of April frost made big damages in Puligny. Flowering occurred lately, with wind and rain, many flower aborted, confirming a low yield vintage. Fortunately, summer was hot and dry, enhancing maturation and sugar concentration by the end of summer. Harvest started 13th of September. White wines are generous and fruit driven, but high acidity gives a good concentration and length. Red wines benefited from the hot summer with a complex bouquet and round tanins.