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Pommard 1er Cru Les Grands Epenots 2016 Domaine Lejeune
Pommard 1er Cru Les Grands Epenots 2016 is a natural wine from Burgundy produced by Domaine Lejeune. From grapes deriving from the 1er Cru Les Grands Epenots vineyard, which is only three meters from the previous one, but is expressed in a substantially different way. With a bright ruby red color, the nose is invaded by aromas of fresh red fruits with mineral nuances followed by a palate of good hold, with little evident and ready-made tannins, with strong balsamic notes, for a rounder and less mineral wine than the previous one , to drink young.
DENOMINATION: Pommard 1er Cru AOC
REGION: Burgundy (France)
GRAPES: 100% Pinot Noir
Pommard Les Grands Epenots Natural Wine 2016
Most of France's wines base their production philosophy on the production method of natural wines in order to preserve and protect the identity of the territory of origin and the terroir to which it belongs. The vocation of the natural artisan winemakers, in France, is a historical tradition of making wine and a modus operandi that hardly leaves room for modern conceptions, the Domaine Le Jeune is just one of these natural artisan realities. The domain is based on tradition: the maturity of the grapes is tested manually, tasting the berries in such a way that each plot is harvested only in its optimal condition. The harvest takes place manually, the fermentations are natural without the addition of yeasts, the malolactic fermentation takes place naturally and the result of all this manual skill and naturalness is a grape juice, a natural wine that expresses in itself nothing more than what it really is.
Natural Wines: the philosophy behind winemaking
Natural wine does not mean only without the addition of sulphites, it means working according to the ancient winemaking traditions with sulfur and copper in the vineyard, based on the effort of manual labor, the least interventionist activities possible letting the cycles of Nature do most of the work up to vinification of grape juice as it is, without any substances if not its own. The result of all this production philosophy is natural wine, a non-standardized wine that best expresses its identity, its terroir and its most intrinsic characteristics. Natural wines are much more difficult to produce than wines to which we are traditionally accustomed, because when there is no help from the use of balancing substances and support for winemaking, wine cannot be a way of putting: or is it good or bad. Natural wine was born as the commitment of the natural artisan winemakers to raise their product to the standardization of the taste and identity of the wine and the vineyard which, thanks to the widespread use of chemistry and new technologies, now leads to products with always the same flavors, regardless of the production area or the type of cultivation used.
