Domaine des Perdrix

The team shows the highest rigour and brings an extreme attention for details, to the vines, the vinification and the ageing of the wines.

We know what taking risks means at Domaine des Perdrix, waiting for the optimal maturity, which is reached when the pips crunch under the teeth and have lost all their bitterness. The grapes are hand harvested, then sorted out before going in vats, in order to eliminate the unmature and damaged ones. Vatting is long and divided into three steps:

pre-fermenting maceration, maceration, post-fermenting maceration. The wines are then aged mostly in oak barrels (around 18 months), of wich a quarter is changed every year. Wines are bottled when they are on their fruit and flower primary aromas.

This domaine extends over 30 acres in the great terroirs of : Vosne-Romanée, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Nuits-Saint Georges Premier Cru "Aux perdrix" (which is owned in quasi monopoly, as the Doamine owns 99% of this great vineyard) and Echézeaux Grand Cru (situated in "Echézeaux du dessus", right in the centre of this prestigious vineyard). More than half of our vineyards, are Premiers Crus and Grand Crus.

Domaine des Perdrix was taken over in 1996 by Devillard's family, wine's men and women, for 5 generations. All vineyards were in perfect condition. High investments have been realized in the Cuverie, in order to take advantage of the present techniques: Most of the domaine's production was first sold to a trade firm, with the result that the Domaine was not well-known. Which has allowed Robert Parker to say that, even in the great terroirs of Côte de Nuits, you could still discover great quality wines.

Just as for high gastronomy, you can only produce great wines with very good grapes. We like to mention that the terroir notion, which is the soil, the subsoil and the microclimate union, reaches its extreme refinement and subtlety in Burgundy.

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