From: Burgundy, France
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Tasting Notes: For us, it was love at first sip. Bright, juicy, and fresh aromas of raspberry, cherry, and redcurrant against a backdrop marked by hints of spice and chalky minerality. The palate is fleshy, pure, and medium-bodied in style; flavors of ripe red cherry, redcurrant, and raspberry flavors are punctuated by the wine’s bright acidity and subtleties of wild flowers, pepper/cinnamon spice, damp earth, and light, fine-grained tannins on the finish.
Pairing: Deliciously balanced, this is a bottle to take you through the year from being slightly chilled on a summer evening alongside grilled salmon, to becoming the breakout star of your Thanksgiving or Holiday dinner table. If you’re feeling like some lighter bites, this wine will be a great companion to a simple beurre-jambon baguette sandwich or your favorite cured meats as part of a charcuterie spread. Of course, this wine would also be excellent with a classic roast chicken, vegetable gratin, mushroom risotto, or even as a complement for the richness of a tartiflette. If you choose to serve this wine with appetizers, this Stuffed Mushrooms recipe by Kay Chun will not disappoint!
About. For a long time, the leading French wine-growing department, Yonne in Burgundy suffered the full brunt of phylloxera, the First World War, and competition in the market from wines from the south of France. Only a few villages close to Chablis and Auxerre with well-established reputations have preserved significant vineyard area, and Chitry is one of them. Chitry-Le-Fort, as the original name suggests, was once a fortified town. In the Middle Ages the main road, La Grande Rue, formed the boundary between the lands of the Count of Tonnerre in Champagne and the Count of Auxerre in Burgundy. Back in the 19th century the wines of Chitry were sold under the name of Chablis, and in 1929 the wines were accorded the name of Bourgogne des Environs de Chablis. Today, Chitry is one of four viticultural communes of the Auxerrois and wines from here are labeled as Bourgogne or Bourgogne Chitry.
For both white and red wines, fermentation is carried out in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks. This wine blends richer, riper, fruit from south-facing slopes with more vivid, crisp, Pinot from north-facing sites. The grapes wine received a pre-fermentation maceration of a couple of days, with 85% of them de-stemmed. It matured in mainly fiberglass vats before bottling.
