Georges Noellat Cotes de Nuits Villages – 2020

Winemaker Maxime Cheurlin Noellat is grandson of Georges Noellat and related to both Emmanuel Rouget and Henri Jayer, so he has impeccable breeding! He learned his winemaking trade chez Emmanuel Rouget and is one of the rising stars of Burgundy. He has been highly acclaimed by many of the world’s top press including Neil Martin, who is one of his biggest fans.

His 2020s have excellent fruit depth and structure and an astounding sense of vineyard typicity from “village” up to Grand Cru quality level.  These are delicious wines; fresh and vibrant, classy and with that hedonistic opulence which makes the best red Burgundies so exciting!

Vineyard Size: 0.65 ha (1.61 ac)

• Variety: Pinot Noir
• Vine Age: Comblanchien vines planted in the 1980s; Brochon vines planted in the 1960s.
• Terroir: 40 ares in La Damoda, on the southern end of Comblanchien located above the RN74. 25 ares in Queue de Hareng in Brochon, at the top of the slope on very shallow, limestone-based soils.
• Viticulture: Lutte raisonnée, treatments carried out only in reaction to a real, imminent threat.
• Vinification: 100% de-stemmed, 10 to 12-day pre-fermentation cold maceration, gentle extraction at the start of fermentation followed by up to 3-4 daily punch-downs at the end, relatively rapid de-vatting to maintain balance. Aged 18 to 20 months in barrel (about 25% new).