Santenay 1er Cru Grand Clos Rousseau

Autumn dishes, such as beef daube; Chinese styled roasted duck; grilled hamburgers

Produced from purchased fruit from a single parcel, owned by a quality-oriented grower who farms according to sustainable principles, with severely controlled yields. The steeply graded ‘Grand Clos Rousseau’ occupies the upper portion of the larger ‘Clos Rousseau’ vineyard, between 900 and 1,020 feet in altitude. Soils are primarily decomposed white limestone.

Aged in 228L French oak barrels (35-45% new). Unfined and unfiltered.

Hand-harvested by Remoissenet’s team, sorted in the fields and cellar. Fermented on indigenous yeasts in open-top, traditional (yet temperature-controlled) French oak vats.

Remoissenet Père et Fils was founded in Burgundy in 1877 and was established in a 14thcentury building in Beaune. In recent years, the company was run by larger-than-life Roland Remoissenet for around 30 years, before it was sold and taken over by a consortium including the Milstein brothers from the USA, Halpern Enterprises of Toronto and Louis Jadot, with Bernard Répolt, a veteran of managing several other Beaune houses, in charge. The business is on the lookout for vineyards to acquire.