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The Aux Charmes Premier Cru produces very expressive wines that seamlessly blend dark fruit with floral notes, and exotic tea-like aromatics. This is very supple wine as well, and will develop for decades in a cool, dark cellar.
About this wine producer: Brothers Didier and Jean-Louis Amiot represent the fifth generation of their branch of the Amiot family growing wine in the Côte de Nuits. Currently, they farm forty individual parcels in Morey-Saint-Denis and Gevrey-Chambertin, some of which are more than seventy-years-old. There are eight hectares in total, including vines in five Premiers Crus and two Grands Crus.
The grapes are hand-harvested, sorted at the winery, and depending on the vintage, between 70% and 100% are destemmed. The wines ferment on the ambient yeast for ten days in thermoregulated tanks, and are matured for fifteen to eighteen months in oak barrels, of which 30% for the Premiers Crus, and 50% for the Grands Crus are new. There is only one racking, and the wines are bottled unfiltered. Their entire annual production is a minuscule 2,500 cases in most vintages.
$89.00