Domaine Charton

Mercurey Vieilles Vignes Rouge

"An unconditional love for the vines and for wine has been transmitted down the generations in our family, which has been making wine at Mercurey, in Burgundy, since 1941.  We cultivate eleven and a half hectares on excellent terroirs of the Mercurey appellation, in the Côte Chalonnaise.  We seek to preserve the maximum balance between the different life forms that are to be found in our vineyard.  The grapes are entirely picked by hand from 50 year old vines.  We intervene as little as possible during macerations which last around twenty days. We only use wild yeasts that are naturally present on the berries.
This wine with its deep garnet red colour with black gleams offers a nose of black fruit and spice. The tannins are soft and the aromas in a register of cooked red fruit. Can be consumed now in the splendour of its fruit, or in one or two years for even greater harmony."