Quentin and Vincent Joussier
Domaine De L'Eveche, Bourgogne Côte Chalonnaise 2024
Red$26
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Deep ruby colored, ripened red Berries on the nose and moist forest scents, round and fleshy body lead by red and black currant, cranberry with a great tannic structure and a lingering finish. A stunning vintage! Vegan wine: using only minerals (diatomaceous earth) for finning. Natural fermentation. Usually sold $30 average in the USA.
12.50%
35 years old
Certified HVE scheduled for 2021. Pruning Guyot single done by hand, Sarment (twig) are chipped into organic nutriment for the soil. Mechanical plowing on 1 row out of 2. No weedkiller. Disbudding, leaf removal and trimming by hand. Mechanical and Hand harvest. Sustainable agriculture.
Sorting, destemming and vating by gravity. Separation of musts in different stainless steel vats to segment each parcel to keep individual unique qualities. Dry ice pre fermentation for 5 days then alcoholic fermentation while altering few pumping over and gentle treading. After 2-3 weeks, once the alcoholic fermentation is done, the juice is put in stainless steel tank for 10 months in order to achieve a complete malolactic fermentation. Before bottle, blend of the best parcels. Earth filtration and finning with diatomeus earth (veggan).The wine was bottled in August 2018.
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir
1,100 cases
Burgundy
The 2024 season in Mercurey, including the higher and cooler slopes around Saint-Denis-de-Vaux, was defined by a long, humid growing cycle with strong mildew pressure from spring through mid-summer. Flowering was irregular after a cool and wet start, naturally reducing yields and concentrating the surviving fruit. July and August remained moderate in temperature with limited hydric stress, preserving acidity and slowing sugar accumulation. A drier and more stable September allowed gradual phenolic maturity without excessive alcohol levels. Harvests were selective and technically demanding, especially for Pinot Noir, with careful sorting required in many parcels. The resulting wines show moderate structure, vivid freshness and precise red fruit profiles rather than density or extraction. In Mercurey, the best sites produced balanced wines with clear limestone tension, fine tannins and restrained ripeness. Around Saint-Denis-de-Vaux, the valley influence and marl-limestone soils contributed additional lift, aromatic clarity and linearity. Overall, 2024 is a vintage of precision, transparency and early accessibility rather than power, with lower volumes but strong terroir definition.
Cétes Chalonnaise, Burgundy, France
Clay and limestone at 250 meters heights
2023