Mercurey Vieilles Vignes, Domaine Theulot-Juillot 2020

Dense and powerful with plenty of tannin and masses of elegant fruit and a wonderful, succulent texture.

1st plot - marly soil. 2nd plot - chalky Bathonian soil. 3rd plot - rocky chalk.

The choice was to make this a wine with a pure grape profile, without technological intervention. So the vines are cultivated without herbicides, but by tilling the soils and natural grassing over. The use of pesticides is very limited, and they use ploughing and cover crops.

Keeping it as simple as possible, they hope to have the purest expression of Pinot Noir. Relatively long maceration in stainless steel vats of 12 to 15 days with ‘pigeage' (punching down the cap).

Maturing occurs in oak casks for 12 months, with a maximum of 15% of new oak, to keep all the freshness and purity of the Pinot Noir.