Burgundy
The Initials B.B. - 2019 - Edouard Lepesme
Le Domaine d'Edouard
Powerful nose of stewed white fruit, raisins, biscuit... Voluminous, suave and long on the palate, a great gastronomic wine, to be sipped while listening a few Gainsbourg songs of course!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Organic wine
- Appellation
- Côtes d'Auxerre
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2029
- rock’n’roll
Second vintage for this 100% Chardonnay cuvée made from 60-year-old vines grown organically on the Bons Boire plot (hence the cuvée's name!), which benefits from excellent South-East exposure. Clay-limestone soils on Jurassic rock. Harvesting is done by hand, low yields. Natural viniifcation: directly pressed, fermented and aged in barrels on lees, followed by 6 months in vats. Bottling on the estate, sensible use of sulfites.
Edouard Lepesme
Edouard Lepesme worked until 2010 in the bulk wine trade. Then in 2011, he decided to pursue a degree in viticulture and oenology in Beaune, one of the most complete training programmes to become a vigneron. Diploma in the bag, he headed off to work in Chablis with (well, well!) Thomas Pico and Alice & Olivier De Moor , continuing down to Claire Naudin ’s Côte de Nuits Domaine,...
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