Defaix Bourgogne Rouge 2022
by Domaine Daniel-Etienne Defaix
- Grape variety
- Pinot Noir
- Region
- Chablis, Burgundy, France
- Style
- red
- Alcohol
- 12.7%
- Vintage
- 2022
Price: CHF 33 In stock
About this wine
An anomaly — and probably a unicorn. A Bourgogne Rouge produced on the limestone soils of Chablis, from a parcel of old Pinot Noir planted by Daniel-Etienne Defaix's ancestors in 1900. The Defaix family has worked these slopes since 1610, father to son, and these century-old vines on calcareous-ferruginous earth give a wine you'll find nowhere else: a Pinot Noir with the acidulous lift Chablis is famous for, but draped in very ripe red fruit. Natural-yeast fermentation at 18°C for three weeks, full malolactic, twelve months on fine lees with monthly bâtonnage. Capped at 10% of any order — quantities are tiny.
Tasting notes
Bright cherry-red. The nose is generous: very ripe red fruits, blackcurrant bud, kirsch-soaked cherry, a brush of forest floor. The palate is light-bodied but acidulous and lifted, with the iron-and-limestone backbone giving real grip. The wine for œufs en meurette, bœuf bourguignon, wild boar or venison — or to drink alone, for the sheer originality of the thing.
Food pairings
Œufs en meurette, Bœuf bourguignon, Wild boar, Venison
Best for
A curious Burgundy lunch
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