Vincent Girardin Santenay 1er Cru "Le Beauregard" 2016

For more than 10 years :

RETURN OF THE VINE GROWER TO THE LABOUR AND NATURAL COMPOST
Haute Couture
Vincent Girardin's Grands Vins Girardin are the fruit of great qualitative changes. The House of Vincent Girardin has been perpetuating its "Très Haute Couture" winemaking ethics for many years.

After an experiment in biodynamic cultivation from 2007 to 2010, we now favour the purchase of grapes from vineyards managed according to the following principles:

* No weed killer or insecticide,

* In deep ploughing,

* Using natural composts from farms in the Burgundy region,

* High trellising for a better photosynthesis,

* Manual harvesting with sorting on the vine and in the vat room.

Whether it is for the Grands Crus of Meursault or the Grands Crus of Puligny-Montrachet, as for all the Grands Crus of the Maison Vincent Girardin, we are committed to the most natural winemaking possible. Thus, in the cellar, we continue the work initiated in the vineyards by:

* Use of very high quality equipment for a traditional vinification for the best natural expression of the terroir,

* A slow fermentation with indigenous yeasts, naturally present on the grapes,

* Long maturation, on fine lees, in oak barrels from the best French forests, with a fair and sparing use of new barrels,

* The respect of the lunar calendar for all the stages of the wine making as well as the bottling, in order to preserve all the energy of the soils.

The quality of the wines is based on the technical choices made by the winemaker. Like the Grands Vins de Bourgogne Vincent Girardin, the white wines draw their quality from the finesse, the extreme aromatic purity, at the meeting point between fatness and vivacity.
The red wines are fruity and elegant, with supple tannins.
The success of this work requires the winemaker to be rigorous and vigilant at all times, in the service of each wine, because each bottle evokes a hillside, a particular exposure.