2023 Le Grappin Cote d'Or Rouge Les Seurrets, Burgundy, France
Regular price $57.00
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100% Pinot Noir
Le Grappin is the project of Emma and Andrew Nielson, an Anglo-Australian couple based in Burgundy. After five years of apprenticeship in California and New Zealand, they eventually found their way to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay mecca. Today, they operate their tiny micro-negociant out of Fanny Sabre’s old cellar inside the walled city of Beaune, just across the street from the town mayor’s office.
The basic thrust of Le Grappin is to produce single parcel wines from the Côte d’Or, Mâconnais, and Beaujolais with as little intervention as possible along the way. The Nielsens go out of their way to do everything by hand in the vines and the cellar and look to maintain longstanding relationships with growers not only to ensure consistency, but also a trusting and long-sighted approach to farming. Instead of seeking out the most famous sites, they try their best to be guided by the inherent quality in each parcel.
This lieu-dit used to sit inside the borders of Pommard and now rests on the plain just below where the line is drawn. The soils consist of dolomitic alluvial marls and coarse limestone which Andrew believes adds the blue fruited character to this wine. There is a very delicate extraction of fruit here, which shines through in the ethereal, but aromatic wine it makes.