Appellation: Chassagne Montrachet "Les Chambres"
Grape: 100% Pinot noir Serving Temperature: between 14° to 16°
Shel life of wine: 2 to 5 years
Vinification: Traditional vinification in open vats, with punching of the cap and pumping over according to tasting; vatting for a minimum of 15 days; entonnage (30% new barrels minimum 12 moth).
Tasting notes: This wine is brilliant, with purplish highlights - this wine is a well-coloured Pinot Noir. Aromas of Morello cherry and cherry-pit, wild strawberry, gooseberry, and raspberry are commonly present. Notes of animal and spice complete the bouquet. In the mouth, this wine has real substance. Its delicious fleshiness partly conceals tannins which, though somewhat austere in youth, give way with maturity to a concentrated and taste-filled structure, intriguing in its complexity.
Food paring: Powerful and tannic, it flatters good quality meats such as grilled or roast lamb, coating their fibres in the mouth. Its aromatic power balances that of grilled pork and of curried or tandoori-style poultry. The Premiers Crus demand, at the very least, feathered game.
Location: In the southern part of the Cote de Beaune Chassagne-Montrachet shares with Puligny the uncontested title of the prince of the world's dry white wines: the divine Montrachet (pronounced "Monrachay"). This fine, broad hillside brings out the very highest expression of the two Burgundian grapes - the Pinot Noir and the Chardonnay, which grow here side-by side - such is the complexity of the region's soils! Extensive marble quarries, which form a kind of cliff face, were the source of the pink and beige flagstones which went into the building of the Trocadero in Paris and more recently the Louvre Pyramid. The Chassagne- Montrachet AOC dates from 1937. It includes some plots in the neighbouring village of Remigny which share the same soil conditions.
Soils: At altitudes between 220 and 325 metres, the succession of rocks from the top down is first rauracien then callovien and finally argovien. The soil of the various Climats (named plots with distinctive qualities) ranges from pebbly limestones, through marls, to sandy soils with a Jurassic basis.
