2020 Marsannay Rouge

This is from Pataille’s small parcel in Es Chezots; a very cool site at the top of the hill in the Combe du Pré, where the conditions have produced an ethereal wine that is dense with florals and fruit. A wine that unfurls. Cascades even. Why not? In 2019, the warm year also bestowed a rewardingly ripe cherry fruit and an earthy complexity. Sylvain Pataille is Marsannay born and bred. He grew up amongst the vines, helping his father prune the vines on a friend's vineyard. As he got more fami...Read More...

This is from Pataille’s small parcel in Es Chezots; a very cool site at the top of the hill in the Combe du Pré, where the conditions have produced an ethereal wine that is dense with florals and fruit. A wine that unfurls. Cascades even. Why not? In 2019, the warm year also bestowed a rewardingly ripe cherry fruit and an earthy complexity. Sylvain Pataille is Marsannay born and bred. He grew up amongst the vines, helping his father prune the vines on a friend's vineyard. As he got more familiar with the area, he branched out and started working amidst other vineyards. Studying at Beaune with some of the other greats, he began working in a wine lab, as well as a winery in Bordeaux. Drawn back home, as most are wont to do, he looks after fifteen hectares of vines, growing Aligoté, Pinot Noir, Pinot Beurrot (Gris), Chardonnay, Chardonnay Rosé and Aligoté Doré.  - notes from 2019 vintage

 

 

 

 

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