Hospices de Beaune

This is one of the very few white cuvées from the Hospices de Beaune. This wine comes from a plot which used to be planted with Pinot Noir (the grapes going into the Beaune Cuvée Cyrot-Chaudron). The old Pinot vines were pulled up et the land replanted in 2010 with Chardonnay. The soil is stony and lime-rich, with white marls – well suited to white wine production. It is high on the hillside, near the source of the Lulunne stream. The wine is rich and generous with aromas of fennel, anise, pears and golden apples on the palate ripe fruit bends well with good acidity to make for a wine that is both quite powerful, long and refreshing.