Parcel: Sous le Chateau

Average age of the vines: 50 years

Exposition and soil: “Sous le Château” is located on the steep hillsides of Saint-Romain. The soil consists of heavy limestone. This south-facing, limestone site situated on a steep incline has ideal conditions for ripening and drainage.

Vinification: The grapes are brought to the winery where the whole cluster fruit is pressed and then fermented in one-year-old French oak barrels. All of our wines undergo a traditional non-inoculated natural fermentation, which often extends the fermentation through the winter and then undergoes a full malolactic fermentation in the spring. Thus remaining “sur-lie” and not racked until bottling after 11 months.

Tasting notes: Sous le Château is one of the top village sites in Saint-Romain, which creates wines with intense minerality, lime, pear, and apple notes. This is a very elegant style of chardonnay, with a judicious amount of oak that promotes an elegance without overpowering the grape, and adds to a lengthy finish. This wine will age 4-6 years.