Jean Chauvenet Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru 'Les Perrieres' 2020 Catalonia is harvested late and left

is harvested late and left to raisin for four months before pressing

The vineyards are a mix of two terroirs: Oxfordian “caillottes” and Kimmeridgian “marne”

There is a single bottling of the entire lot

This cuvée is one of dynamism

this exceptionally complex and age-worthy Zierfandler hails from 50-year-old vines planted in the Mandel-Höh vineyard (“Mandel” means “almond tree”—and where almonds thrive

Jean Chauvenet Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru 'Les Perrieres' 2020 Catalonia is harvested late and leftAs the Chauvenet holdings move in a southerly direction, we have the pleasure of accessing wine from the regal cru of Perrieres, a profoundly stony site that produces a wine of great breed and class; the domaine controls a quarter hectare of this renowned lieu dit. A wine with a fine capacity to age, a process that reveals a most complex wine of excellent balance; one of the most elegant and intellectual wines of this part of the Cote de Nuits.