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2017 Santenay, Cuvée "S", David Moreau, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - mature (Drink 2018 - 2022)
William Kelley
89/100
Product: 20171176795

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2017 Santenay, Cuvée "S", David Moreau, Burgundy

Description

Half of the vines for this cuvée suffer from court noué (fanleaf virus), which reduces the yield and causes millerandage; small berries which make concentrated wines. The nose offers subtle spice notes while the palate gives richness and density with some darker fruit flavours and rocky grip. Drink 2020-2024


David began picking on 7th September for his Pinot Noir, pointing out that while this was the same date as in 2015, the two vintages have contrasting profiles. David used the word digeste to describe the 2017s, suggesting these are wines which will have you reaching for the next glass. The character of the vintage is one of freshness, purity, bright red fruit and floral notes, a combination which marries perfectly with Davids precise and confident winemaking style.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2017
Maturity Ready - mature (2018 - 2022)
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer David Moreau

Critics reviews

William Kelley 89/100
The 2017 Santenay Cuve S is showing well, opening in the glass with notes of cassis, licorice, dark chocolate and sweet cherry fruit. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, with more depth and concentration than the other communal appellations this year, its powdery tannins cloaked in a fleshy core, and concluding with a long, expansive finish.William Kelley - 31/07/2019
William Kelley, RobertParker.com (Jul 2019)

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Santenay

Santenay

Santenay, in Burgundy, France, is a charming village renowned for exceptional Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines. Its diverse terroir and handcrafted winemaking tradition result in red wines with fruit flavours and elegant tannins, and white wines with crisp acidity and fruity notes.
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David Moreau

David Moreau has taken over part of his octogenerian grandfather’s wine domaine in Santenay in Côte de Beaune, beginning with the 2009 vintage. Prior to that David has worked with Olivier Lamy and Domaine de la Romanée Conti, as well as doing a stage in New Zealand at Neudorf. David is beginning with 5 of the family’s 9 hectares and suffice to say that significant changes in both viticulture and vinification have been made compared to the ancien regime. The vineyards were almost all planted in the 1960s, so David has old vines to work with. They are mostly pruned by cordon royat to minimise vigour, and the land is either ploughed or left with grass depending on the circumstance of a given plot.
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