Bourgogne White 2020 - Domaine Trapet

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  Direct from the Jean & Jean-Louis TRAPET estate

The estate tells you about it: 

"Our Burgundies are winegrowers' wines in many ways.

We are proud to accompany these mosaics of terroirs, from the choice of plots to the birth of the wine. We are also proud to be able to offer wine lovers wines that we, as winemakers, appreciate, particularly during meals with friends, as part of a simple and convivial cuisine. Our taste buds will be awakened by the idea of the traditional harvest snack where we all get together and start eating ham and goat's cheese accompanied by our white Burgundy. These beautiful Chardonnay grapes, the substance of our white Burgundy, ripen on two terroirs located in the commune of Marsannay: En Auvonne and En Varangée. Well drained and well exposed, the two soils are fairly similar in structure, with silt and clay-limestone, and have many small pebbles on the surface that restore the accumulated energy. From this wine, we will also draw our energy, to "hold our ordon "* and cut our grapes!

Later, when the sun is at its zenith and we are hungry, we will enjoy opening a good bottle of Passetoutgrains. A wine of pleasure, a wine of thirst, this Passetoutgrains is the fruit of the tumultuous union between this stout Gamay and this subtle and racy Pinot Noir. On the estate, these two plants are rooted in the Grands Champs parcel. Located on the Gevrey hillside, this terroir, replanted by Louis and Jean Trapet in 1965, adjoins the Gevrey-Chambertin AOC."

The 2020 vintage

It has proved brilliant here: as elsewhere along the Côte, the wines are more primary than their 2019 counterparts at the same stage, and tighter, displaying deep, saturated hues, vibrant fruit cores and ripe tannins. While not in the least austere, they will require some patience to realise their potential - but what potential! Boosted by the growing involvement of his sons, Pierre and Louis, Jean-Louis Trapet has initiated a viticultural revolution: in 2020, seven whole hectares of the estate's vineyards were converted to both trellises and higher posts and wires, depending on the steepness of the slope. Since then, the changes have been rolled out to other plots. And given the extent of Trapet's operation in the best climates, this means that the walk from Morey-Saint-Denis to Gevrey-Chambertin suddenly has a different face. In the winery, the vinification remains very classical, with large percentages of whole bunches. There are also more small cuvées, including a Gevrey-Chambertin 1859, made from old vines in a place called Champerrier, and a bottling of Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Aux Combottes. 

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