Savoie
Argile sur Schistes - 2023 - Denis et Didier Berthollier
Denis & Didier Berthollier Vignerons
This cuvée crafted for gastronomy offers us a superb balance, combining the roundness and complexity of the clay soils with the freshness and minerality of schists.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Chignin
- Degree of alcohol
- 11.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
100% Jacquère from biodynamically-grown vines planted on two plots of around 30 ares each, in the Les Côtes and Les Châteaux-Montagny lieux-dits of Chignin, which feature gentle slopes, schist soils covered with a layer of clay ranging from 30 cm to more than a meter, and a southern exposure. Harvested by hand, yields of around 30 hl/ha, direct pressing, aged in vats. Bottled at the estate according to lunar cycles, without fining or filtration, just a micro-dose of sulfur.
Denis and Didier Berthollier
Denis and Didier Berthollier are the two brothers at the helm of the estate of the same name, located in the heart of the Savoyard countryside of Chignin. We have to go back to 1850 to find the first traces of the family business, with a few vines and the first farmhouse. At that time, the vines were grown for the family's own consumption and the rest was sold to the bistros of Chambéry in...
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