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Mâcon la Roche-Vineuse rouge

Tasting notes
The wine has an intense, deep colour.
Highly concentrated in the mouth with velvety tannins.
Excellent aromatic expression featuring spices (pepper) and cherry.
Terroir
Quaternary limestone-clay soil (Middle Bathonian)
Exposure: westerly
Altitude: 250 m
Slope: 5%
Culture
Grape variety: Gamay
Planting density: 8,000 plants per hectare
Average yield: 35 hl/ha
Picking by hand
Vinification
Triage on sorting table.
50% de-stemmed before vatting. Maceration in open wooden vats with cap-punching once a day and one pumping-over.
Duration of vatting, 13 days, then pressing and running into barrels. Malolactic fermentation in barrel.
After 8 months' elevage in barrel, racking, then light filtration on Kieselguhr before bottling.
No fining.

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