Jérôme Guichard
BURGUNDY
On the territory of Cruzille, a village in the North of Mâconnais, the Domaine des Vignes du Maynes comes from a very old Clos created by the monks of the Abbey of Cluny. Since its acquisition by the Guillot family in 1952, it has established itself as a pioneering and emblematic domain of organic culture and wine: it produces whites and reds of the Bourgogne, Mâcon and Mâcon-Cruzille appellations that are particularly convincing and renowned. for their authenticity. Emblematic pioneer domain of organic culture and wine in Mâconnais and more widely in France, the Domaine des Vignes du Maynes comes from a Clos created in Cruzille, to the North-East of Cluny, by the monks of the Cistercian abbey in the dawn of the tenth century. Acquired in 1952 by Pierre Guillot then passed on to Alain (in 1970), who was president of the National Federation of Organic Agriculture, then to Julien (in 2001), the vines today represent 8 ha (to which are added purchases of organic grapes for certain cuvées), entirely in organic cultivation since the beginning and switched to biodynamics in the 2000s. They are distributed, on clay-limestone soils on hard limestone, between gamay, pinot noir and chardonnay and are offered in AOC Burgundy, Mâcon and Mâcon-Cruzille. The impeccable quality of the grapes, obtained by very rigorous cultural practices, is optimized in the cellar by vinification with little intervention (apart from a small dose of sulfur on the whites before racking). The reds are done in semi-carbonic maceration ("millefeuille" of whole bunches and destemmed berries) in wooden vats then are aged in barrels and tuns without racking, the whites only know large containers to favor the freshness of the fruit which is one of the domain constants. Objective – perfectly achieved –: lively and convivial wines, with beautiful aromatic elegance, fine minerality and silky texture.
Jérôme Guichard wines
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