Pommard Premier Cru Les Epenots", Vincent Girardin 2016"

Vincent Girardin Red Wines

GRAND PINOT NOIR, A NOBLE GRAPE

A PURE EXPRESSION OF BURGUNDY'S TERROIRS

Maison Vincent Girardin strives to make wines that offer the best possible representation of Burgundy's terroir.

Our Grand Pinot Noir Bourguignon is by nature a refined, noble grape, and our objective is to respect this character as much as possible and therefore not too over-extract, so that all the splendour of Burgundy can be expressed in these Great Terroirs.

The main stages in our work as winegrowers:

In order to give you an idea of the tasks involved, here is an outline of the main stages of our work in Burgundy's vineyards:

- Severe pruning aiming at reducing yield;

- Reasoned farming favouring organic products (copper and sulphur);

- Ploughing, without herbicides or pesticides;

- Work on growing vines (disbudding, trellising), allowing to obtain a better photosynthesis and an optimal health of the grapes;

- manual harvests with sorting in the vineyard;

- automatic manual sorting in the vat room by an experienced team followed by optical sorting depending on the vintage;

- partial destemming of the harvest;

- transfer to temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks;

- alcoholic fermentation by indigenous yeasts naturally present on the grapes for about three weeks;

- pumping over and light crushing in order to respect the grapes' natural structure and to obtain the purest possible wines and the best expression of the terroir;

- gentle pressing;

- transfer to casks after a light settling in French oak barrels (between 10 and 30% new barrels depending on the appellation) in which malolactic fermentation takes place due to the indigenous bacteria (naturally present in the grape juice);

- maturing for 16 to 18 months on fine lees;

- traditional racking cask by cask by gravity;

- bottling without fining or filtration, respecting the lunar calendar.