Denante Bourgogne Rouge Pinot Noir

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Domaine de la Denante is a small, 12 hectare estate located in Davayé, one of the famed ‘Villages’ of the Mâcon.  Davayé shares the same ‘terroir’ as Saint-Véran, which encompasses Mâcon-Davayé, and Pouilly-Fuissé, which surrounds Davayé to the south and west.  The soils are calcareous limestone overlaid with fine, silty, sandy loam – ideal for the cultivation of Burgundian varietials.  

Domaine de la Denante was founded as a winery in 1975 by Robert Martin.  It is named for a small creek that flows across the top of their property and through the village of Davayé. Prior to 1975, the Martin family were farmers, supplying grapes to many noteworthy wineries in the area.  They produce a small range of wines from the area including whites like Mâcon-Villages, Saint-Véran, and Pouilly-Fuissé, and reds such as this Mâcon-Davayé Rouge, and Bourgogne Rouge from Pinot Noir.  The estate has always been farmed organically, and worked largely by hand, assisted by draft horses.  In 2012, Robert’s son Damien took over the estate, elevating the viticulture to include biodynamic practices.  The fermentations remain traditional, using wild yeasts, completed in a mixture of old oak, concrete, and stainless steel.  The Bourgogne Rouge is hand-picked, cold macerated for 48 hours, and fermented with wild yeasts.  Approximately 50% whole clusters are included.  The wine is pressed and aged in 225L old oak barrels for approximately a year before bottling and release.  

Red wines in the Mâcon are in the minority.  The area is largely white wine specific, dominated by the hometown hero Chardonnay.  However, there are small amounts of red wine produced in pockets of the Mâconnais, some from Pinot Noir and typically labeled ‘Bourgogne Rouge’, or, in some cases, Gamay, and being entitled to a different set of appellation names, including Beaujolais.  The Bourgogne Rouge is from a very special vineyard planted in 1930 on a gently rolling limestone outcropping near Loché, on the eastern edge of the Pouilly-Fuissé appellation.  These gnarled, surly old vines give small quantities of very flavourful grapes, amounting between 3 or 4 barrels per year depending on yield (75 to 100 cases).  

 

2017 ml

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