Coteaux de Champlitte rouge ungeschwefelt 2019

François de Nicolay is the name of the Négoce business under the management of the family-owned Domaine Chandon de Briailles in Savigny-Lès-Beaune. This means that only wines are produced and sold that do not come from the estate's own land. The grapes, musts or wines used for this come from certified organic or biodynamic vineyards or plants that are in conversion. Vinified in the cellar of Chandon et Briailles, the wines are marketed under their own label with their own label.

Dark ruby red with violet reflections.

The 2019 Coteaux de Champlitte from François de Nicolay shows its jovial side on the nose. With joyful fruit from raspberries to dark stone fruit such as black cherries, it radiates joyfully from the goblet, delicate floral top notes are tartly countered by notes of elderberry or cranberries. Dark fruity and spicy, it is completed by juniper, allspice and black pepper, with a dark tobacco leaf on top.

The fullness of the nose is tartly contoured on the palate and spans the entire palate with a taut attack. Its initially purely structural appearance fills out in the aftertaste with the essence of ripe fruit - from the raspberries the tannic seeds, from the berry fruits the tart skins. All this gives it its animating cool drinkability, underpinned with dark extract and fuelled by an animating acidic nerve that accompanies it into a fruity tart finish.