Marchand-Tawse’s Beaune Premier Cru Les Tuvilains comes from 70-year-old Pinot Noir vines grown in clay and loam mixed with limestone. The grapes are fully destemmed and spend ...
Marchand-Tawse’s Beaune Premier Cru Les Tuvilains comes from 70-year-old Pinot Noir vines grown in clay and loam mixed with limestone. The grapes are fully destemmed and spend 20 days in vat, beginning with a five-day cold soak. Daily punch-downs at the start of fermentation give way to pump-overs for gentle extraction. The wine ages for 17 months in French oak casks from the Tronçais and Allier forests, 25% of them new. It is racked once after malolactic fermentation and bottled unfined and unfiltered.
