Corton Clos du Roi Grand Cru 2017 - Domaine de la Vougeraie

Corton Clos du Roi Grand Cru 2017 - Domaine de la Vougeraie

MILESIME 2017:

Harvest

Harvest date: September 5, 2017 (root day). Sorting in the vineyard and in the winery. Yield: 34 hl/ha

Vinification

44% of the whole harvest, the rest is destemmed and then vatted by gravity. Without yeasting or enzymes. Cold pre-fermentation maceration (12-15°C) for 5 days. Total maceration: 23 days One cap punching per day until mid-fermentation then a light pumping over per day until the end of vatting. Pressing with the vertical press.

Ageing

Duration: 16 months and 1 month in stainless steel tanks Type: in barrels. Percentage of new barrels: 42% Soft and slow heating. Origin of the wood: Cîteaux and Tronçais Racking of all the barrels. No fining, light filtration.

Bottling: February 5 and 12, 2019 (Root and fruit day) Limited to 2041 bottles and 66 Magnums.

The little story : Guy de Maupassant loves good wine. He likes to make the characters of his novels and short stories drink it, choosing the finest bottles for them. Thus Duroy in Bel-Ami: "He had found the Corton to his taste and he let it fill his glass every time. A delicious cheerfulness entered him, a warm cheerfulness that ran through all his limbs, penetrated him entirely. He felt himself invaded by a complete well-being, a well-being of life and thought, of body and soul".

Vines

Situation : While in Côte de Nuits the landscape observes a rather rigorous and straight line, Cistercian in a word, everything suddenly changes. Hyphen with the Côte de Beaune of a more animated and less austere, Clunisian in a word, the mountain of Corton thrones in majesty and draws a wide arc of a circle. The Clos du Roi (King's Clos) is the main attraction at an altitude of around 300 metres. Just below the Corton on the hillside; on one side Languettes and Perrières, on the other Renardes: one could not dream better.

The terroir : Under the Burgundian beret of the Bois de Corton which caps the mountain, a geological section often cited as an example as it explains everything. On a steep slope, the top of the hillside provides, thanks to fairly marly and clayey soils, the great golden whites, virulent and full of sap. At mid-slope as here, the limestone, stony soil, reddened by the ferruginous oolite of the marls with a high potassium content, makes the red wine powerful, full-bodied, sublime. We are in an exceptionally high position in the Côte for red Grands Crus. A little further down, the wine is more tender and fruity on flinty limestone residues and brown or reddish, clay-limestone soil.

Grape variety : 100% Pinot Noir

Soil and subsoil: red, clayey, iron-rich, stony and little limestone. STRP Compost*

Planting density: 10,101.01 plants/ha

Yield: 22.94 hl / ha

Plant material: 100% massal selection

Reasoned Pest Control since 1992

Organic farming. Approval received in 1999.

Horse ploughing

Size: Guyot

Vine news : Repicking of missing parts in autumn. Ridging of the vines in winter. Spraying of nettle and rhubarb (new) tea, decoction of horsetail and silica, willow, horsetail, yarrow and tansy. Biodynamic preparation, 500 and 501 at the end of winter and spring, and 501 before the flower. Evasivating in spring.