Winemaker Notes
The Givry 1er cru rouge Les Grands-Prétans comes from a plot of 1.50 ha with an average age of 30 years. The plot is ideally located, in full hillside facing south-east. "Fullness" is the word that best characterizes this wine within the range of givrys of the estate. The flesh is ample, sitting on powerful tannins but perfectly melted with a tasty spicy fruit.
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
A deeper, richer colour with a solid weight of dark raspberry fruit, and a little more structure here. Still pleasingly rounded and no more than middleweight, so not trying to be something it is not.
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.”
Noted as the preferred wine of King Henry IV of the late 1500s—though maybe because his mistress came from here!—Givry is a top red wine-producing village in the Côte Chalonnaise.
Its firmly structured reds, made exclusively from Pinot Noir, also boast plenty of blackberry and strawberry fruit with supple tannins that benefit from about two to five years in the bottle. The robust fruit and firmness on the palate in a Givry red begs for dishes such as mixed charcuterie, braised veal, stewed poultry or roasted duck.
Typical Givry whites have a fresh bouquet of lemon, lime, white flower licorice and can benefit and become softer with age.