Domaine Chanson
I made a very strict selection here, buying just the Rully and the Dominode. These, I thought, were very good. Overall, yields were around 30hl/ha. A severe sorting was made with 35 people working on the conveyor belt. There was a week of cold maceration pre-fermentation and whole-bunch vinification averaged 50%. Founded in 1750, this is one of the great historic producers of Burgundy, who have 45 ha of domaine vineyards in the Côte d’Or and now a further 45 ha in the Côte Chalonnaise. Many of the wines are made and matured in the defence tower, the Bastion, which dates from the 15th century. Some of the walls are eight metres thick.