2019 Domaine Guy & Yvan Dufouleur Nuits-Saint-Georges "Aux Saint-Julien", Burgundy, FranceABOUT THIS WINE Aux Saint Juliens is an old vine site (65 years) with a small vineyard surface (just over an acre) located on a flat plot north of Nuits Saint Georges. Elaboration: The harvest is done by hand. The grapes are then carefully sorted at the winery. Enzymage, yeasting, cold pre fermentation maceration for one week, daily pigeage, warm maceration. Aged for 12 months in oak barrels, of which 1 3 new, malolactic fermentation in barrels, then

based in Cheverny

In 1636 German diplomat Nicolau Kopkë travelled with his son

Les Brugueres is picked by hand and ferments by natural yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks

rose petals

When the final blend is made

Patrick enlisted the assistance of Gérard Cuperly as head winemaker

Nicholas Saahs and his wife Christine took over the estate in the late 1960s and Christine instigated the conversion to biodynamic farming

In 1942 he obtained permission from Louis Pasteur's grandson to replant Pasteur's vineyards

Ambient yeasts are preferred though sometimes a neutral strain of cultured yeast is required to complete its fermentation

Jean Gautreau also constructed a new

One of the few estates in Sancerre to harvest entirely by hand this wine is fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged in tank for at least 4 months before bottling

Their brother manages the vineyards