Antoine Lienhardt, Côte de Nuits Villages 2013 Aux Vignottes

A bright deep ruby wine with a nose offering attractive Pinot flavours, red and black liquorice and pepper. The palate is velvety and has fleshy tannins with remarkable length. Some raspberry but subtle. Very good. 

Drinking Dates: 2018 to 2028+

Cépagement: 100% Pinot Noir (vineyard planted in the late 1960s at Corgoloin).

Soil: Clay-limestone

Upbringing:Farmed lutte raisonnée. Harvested at optimum ripeness (always determined by consistent tasting in the vineyards), 100% destemmed, closed tank fermentation with cuvaison of 10 to 15 days. Aged one year in 50% new barrels and 50% one-year-old barrels. Production: 350 cases.

ABV: 13%