Nicole Lamarche Bourgogne Rouge 2018
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Nicole Lamarche Bourgogne Rouge is aged in oak casks for 14 months and bottled without fining and filtration. The resulting wine is a match for all kinds of meats and cheeses. Made with 100% Pinot Noir.
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Pale in colour as Nicole Lamarche's wines nearly are, but not lacking in concentration or complexity, this floral, very appealingly priced Bourgogne Rouge combines fruit from five parcels totalling 0.98 hectares. Juicy, scented and well-balanced with the merest hint of wood spice, textured tannins and succulent summer pudding flavours.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
The most acclaimed region of Burgundy, the Côte d’Or is defined by a long, limestone escarpment beneath the ground's surface and is home to all of Burgundy’s most famous wines. While Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are produced throughout the Côte d’Or, the north tends to excel at Pinot Noir and the south, at Chardonnay.
The northern half of the Côte d’Or is called the Côte de Nuits. Here reside most of the Pinot noir Grands Crus vineyards of Burgundy—the only one farther south, in Côte de Beaune, is Aloxe-Corton.
The Côte de Beaune is the center all of the Chardonnay Grands Crus with the exception of Le Musingy, found in Chambolle-Musigny in the Côte de Nuits, which produces both Pinot Noir and Chardonnay with Grand Cru status.