Henri Prudhon & Fils Saint-Aubin Rouge 1er Cru 'Sur le Sentier du Clou - Vieilles Vignes' 2023

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Henri Prudhon & Fils Saint-Aubin Rouge 1er Cru 'Sur le Sentier du Clou - Vieilles Vignes' 2023This wine is from some of the oldest vines in the estate, planted between 45 and 85 years ago. The parcel is about 1. 5 hectare in size and sits on a hillside between Saint Aubin and Gamay with an east southeast exposure. There is an levage of 15 to 18 months (with very little new oak used). Perhaps the most serious and complex of the red wines of the domaine with a character dominated by red fruits and spices supported by substantial backbone.

Made from a blend of different Mercurey terroirs totaling 7 hectares

A wine made only in the finest vintages and composed of Pinot Noir harvested from the oldest vines (average age of 50 years) of the domaine

Half of their holding is found in a younger parcel

41-hectare parcel of very old vines—all but dares not to be considered a grand cru

The granite-based soils give a “vertical acidity” to the resulting wine

It shows this appellation’s typical soft tannins and gracious red cherry fruit

The smallest of Chablis` Grand Cru vineyards

3 hectares of Syrah and a half-hectare of Marsanne in the site’s sandy granite

and it presents in a more piercing and saline manner than in Larmandier’s Brut wines

lively wine with a big personality

Neumeister’s legendary “Alte Reben” (“old vines”) is produced from the two oldest Sauvignon Blanc plantings in Styria: a 1937 east-facing parcel on Buchberg’s “Stradener Himmelsburg” situated at 360 meters altitude in poor

approximately 20% of the barrels are new

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