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FREDERIC MAGNIEN CHARMES CHAMBERTIN AUX CHARMES 2018 GRAND CRU
Country: France, Burgundy, Gevrey Chambertin
Grape Varieties: Pinot Noir 100%
Grape Varieties: Pinot Noir 100%
Geographic Description: In the Burgundy dialect, Charmes denotes old common land, cultivated and laying fallow, or fallow fields covered by hornbeam woods. The iron ore contained in the soil used to be transported to Langres for knife manufacture. This climate is said to be home to the oldest vines in the commune, planted in 1881.
Geological Description: Charmes-Chambertin Aux Charmes grows on limestone outcrops covered in thin, red-coloured soils, containing marl, iron and stones, some of which are fairly sizeable. The rocky subsoil is highly resistant but fissured, allowing the vine roots to dig down deep, hence their surprising longevity. Some plots can reach up to 100 years old.
Tasting Notes: To create this Pinot Noir, Frederic Magnien hand-picks fruits that are elegant, rich and powerful. It pours with a delicate quality and a saturated hue that harmonise with the extremely fine tannins, leaving you with a moreish aftertaste that offers a glimpse at the great success of the Burgundy soils in 2019.
Geological Description: Charmes-Chambertin Aux Charmes grows on limestone outcrops covered in thin, red-coloured soils, containing marl, iron and stones, some of which are fairly sizeable. The rocky subsoil is highly resistant but fissured, allowing the vine roots to dig down deep, hence their surprising longevity. Some plots can reach up to 100 years old.
Tasting Notes: To create this Pinot Noir, Frederic Magnien hand-picks fruits that are elegant, rich and powerful. It pours with a delicate quality and a saturated hue that harmonise with the extremely fine tannins, leaving you with a moreish aftertaste that offers a glimpse at the great success of the Burgundy soils in 2019.
Product Id: 0565
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Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy`s Côte d`Or.
Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climates of the Côte d`Or.
Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.
The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.
Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climates of the Côte d`Or.
Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.
The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.
