Domaine de Villaine - Mercurey Les Montots 2018
Domaine de Villaine is a Burgundy wine producer situated in Bouzeron in the Côte Chalonnaise region. The domaine holds several climats in the communes of Bouzeron, Rully, Mercurey and Santenay that are planted to Aligoté, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
The estate practices organic agricultural methods in all of its vineyards. Grapes are harvested by hand and vinified naturally. De Villaine ages its wines in tuns, oak casks and tanks, or a mixture of all three depending on the wine and the vintage. The majority of these oak casks are new so as to give a purer expression of each wine.
Les Montots is a lieu-dit with stepped hillsides, exposed to the south, and planted with a selection of Pinot Noir from Nuits-Saint-Georges. Vinified in wooden vats for 18 days and then aged in barrels of first to fifth use. A real, rich Mercurey, which opens little by little with age.