Domaine de la Vougeraie - 2020 vintage

Premeaux-Prissey - A remarkable harvest schedule

The harvests

This year’s harvesting schedule was quite remarkable, we had a tremendous rush to ensure we obtained grapes with just the right balance of sugar and acidity – with the green light for harvesting given 22 days earlier than 2019! Harvesting in the sunshine was a wonderful experience! It has been a year of varying fortunes from plot to plot, within individual plots or even individual bunches! The reds were down a third and there was a fair amount harvested using the ‘vendange entière’ approach. We pressed a lot of juicy, generous, top-quality white grapes. The grapes’ health was top-notch! Extremely quick fermentation cycles. Devatting has revealed some very intense colours. The whites have already finished malolactic fermentation, whereas the reds have only just been put into barrels. All round, it’s been a hectic year!
19th August: Pommard and Corton, the Côte de Beaune reds get the ball rolling!
28th August: rain and a drop in temperature
2nd September: everyone to the Clos Blanc, double-quick!
5th September: the final crates are brought in of the Bourgogne Terres de Famille red.

Iniatial tastings

‘Initial tastings point to a very aromatic and wellstructured product characterized by intense colour. Once again, we added less sulphur this year in our pursuit of a wine that’s smoother in style and which will surely offer an even silkier mouthfeel. As for the reds, they exhibit summer fruit notes, including even cherry, for example, in the case of the Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Bel Air, which is always very expressive, even from a very early age. The whites boast excellent purity and a wide aromatic palette with well-defined differences between the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune’s Grands Crus, featuring aromas of peach, grapefruit, pineapple and for some, hints of tropical fruit.’
SYLVIE POILLOT & HER TEAM