CHASSAGNE MONTRACHET CLOS PITOIS 1° CRU
MONOPOLE DU DOMAINE
The CLOS
PITOIS is an age old famous Clos since it was
created by Monks in the year 1421.
It is served at the most prestigious
gastronomic meals such as Embassy meals. The overall global
area of the CLOS PITOIS is about 3
Hectares, half of which is planted with Chardonnay grapes and half
with Pinot
Noir grapes.
Grass is sown between the vines and as
from the month of July the leaves overlapping the grapes are
removed to let the sun get at them. The grapes are harvested
MANUALLY and the sorting of the grapes is done in the vines
in a very strict way.
GRAPE VARIETY : Exclusively 50
year old PINOT NOIR vines
SURFACE AREA : 1.71 Hectares planted with black
grapes
PRODUCTION :
9000
bottles per year.
TERROIR : Fairly stony clay-limestone soil.
This wine is of a deep bright red ruby colour. It has a red fruit, autumn leaf and spice nose. And on the palate it has an extremely delicate rich winy flavour. Elegance and finesse are the dominating characters.
This CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET CLOS PITOIS is ideal served with roast capon, duck with turnips, chicken with morel mushrooms or fillet of lamb in pastry.