Puligny-Montrachet Les Voites Blanc 2020

Puligny Montrachet Les Voites Blanc 2020,

Fréderic Cossard

This white wine is typically Puligny-Montrachet, meaning mineral, full-bodied, subtle, and long, with pure notes of white flowers. Superb aromas, white flowers, intensity, minerality, a sumptuous premier cru of great depth. Produced from exceptional terroirs, it is made from Chardonnays over forty years old growing on the clay-limestone soils of the Voitte plot, located between 230 and 250 meters above sea level. The terroir, facing west-southeast, is based on brown marl and clay-limestone soils, sometimes directly on the limestone rock. The soil structure is fine, clay-loam. The harvest is pressed, then the must ferments for four months in vats with indigenous yeasts. The wine is aged for twelve months in old barrels, then four months in stainless steel vats. Gravity decanting before bottling.

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Through his entirely natural work, Frédéric Cossard gives voice to the terroirs and Burgundy wines, undeformed by agricultural chemicals. Having observed, during his years of trading, the existence of harmful viticultural practices, the winemaker used this counter-example to practice unadulterated viticulture. Thus, he produces vintages of purity and elegance without artifice that are among the most sought-after in Burgundy. Frédéric worked as a wine broker for some time before creating the Chassorney estate with his partner Laure in 1996: initially a few ares of vines in Saint-Romain, Auxey-Duresses and Savigny-lès-Beaune, and currently ten hectares spread across the Nuits-Saint-Georges, Pommard, Volnay, Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Beaune and Bourgogne appellations. In 2006, he created his own wine trading house and buys organic grapes to vinify, according to his style and convictions, great vintages such as Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet, Chassagne-Montrachet, Pommard, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Chambolle-Musigny, Vosne-Romanée and several Beaujolais crus. The practice is not limited to Burgundy since vintages are made from grapes purchased in the Jura or Languedoc. At his place, the work of the soil and the vines is done as naturally as possible: regular ploughing by horse, no addition of chemical fertilizers or weedkillers. The vines are cared for according to the principles of biodynamics: homeopathic treatments based on essential oils, copper and sulfur in minimal doses. The harvest is entirely manual, carried out at full maturity, at the end of October. Red or white, classic Burgundies or more atypical or less "regional" bottles, Frédéric's vintages are rare and coveted wines, which sometimes require waiting.