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Paul Pillot Bourgogne Rouge 2022-Heritage Wine Store Perth CBD Bottleshop

Paul Pillot Bourgogne Rouge 2022

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Paul Pillot Bourgogne Rouge 2022

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The Heritage Wine Store & Bottle Shop
Pickup available, usually ready in 1 hour

129 Saint Georges Terrace
Brookfield Place
Perth WA 6000
Australia

+61892265596

  • TASTING NOTE / ABOUT THE WINE: This top-drawer Bourgogne is drawn from two estate-owned sites in the southern reaches of Chassagne, near Chagny and Remigny. The soils are the classic clay and limestone of the Côte, and the vines are 35 years old on average. The grapes were handpicked and mostly destemmed before natural fermentation. The wine matured for 12 months in a mix of steel vats and large used barrels. Pillot employs roughly 50% bunches for this wine for structure and perfume—a surprising quantity for this level (until you taste the wine). It’s a deep, fleshy Bourgogne that is simply brilliant for the level. Do not hesitate.  
  • ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Thierry Pillot, well supported by his sister Chrystelle, continues to produce benchmark, pure and intense white Burgundies at his family Domaine. The quality reflects the impressive work in the vines (13 people working 12 hectares of vineyards), as well as incremental evolution in the cellar. Despite the quality and the ever-increasing demand, Thierry and his family remain as humble and discreet as ever: there is no Instagram here! With each vintage, the wines here get purer and more refined. Thierry is great friends with Vincent Dancer, Marc Bachelet, Arnaud Mortet and many other young guns of Burgundy. He is part of a revolution that has been sweeping through the Côte d’Or: a zeitgeist being driven by a new generation. The wines of his father were always good, in no small part due to the quality of the holdings. However, it is strikingly clear to us, and regular visitors like Allen Meadows, that this invigorated address has well and truly kicked things up a gear and now bears comparison with the very best that the Côte de Beaune has to offer. The Pillot’s farm first class holdings in some of Chassagne’s greatest vineyards; La Romanée, Les Grandes Ruchottes, Les Caillerets and La Grande Montagne. The Domaine also makes a stunning Clos St-Jean from the heart of the original Clos traditionally called Chassagne du Clos Saint-Jean. The Pillot family owns just over one hectare here—split equally between Pinot Noir and Chardonnay—and are, in fact, the largest owners in the Clos. In the cellar, the winemaking is geared towards preserving freshness: this is a Domaine obsessed with tension, and Pillot’s whites deliver these qualities in spades. Thierry prefers to crush his grapes before pressing (for lees) and there is no settling, temperature control or battonage. The grapes simply ferment on high solids and wild yeasts at their own pace. Large-format casks of 350 and 500-litres are the fermenting and aging vessels of choice. The whites are fermented wild and matured for 12-18 months on lees in these barrels, before six months in tank. The lees are never stirred, and the wines are bottled unfiltered. Thierry Pillot’s red wines have really come of age in recent years, to the point where they now hold their own compared with the Domaine’s whites. Pillot’s friendship and gentle rivalry with brother-in-law Arnaud Mortet may have played a part in this improvement. The reds are fermented with between 20-60% whole bunches, and like the whites, very little (if any) new oak is used. Bibendum

  • COUNTRY: France 
  • REGION: Burgundy 
  • SUB-REGION: Côte de Beaune
  • VARIETAL: Pinot Noir 
  • WINE STYLE: Red Wine
  • WINEMAKER: Thierry Pillot 
  • CLASSIFICATION: Unfined & Unfiltered, Sustainable Farming, Vegan
  • CLOSURE: Cork 
  • ABV%: 13%
  • SIZE: 750ml

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