Gabin et Felix Richoux Irancy 'Les Cailles' Pinot Noir 2017

Name: Gabin et Felix Richoux Irancy 'Les Cailles' Pinot Noir 2017
Brand: Gabin et Felix Richoux
SKU: WWELC15
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Critic reviews

World Wine – "The 2015 Irancy Les Cailles is lovely, unwinding in the glass with youthful aromas of red cherries, plums, raw cocoa and spicy forest floor. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, satiny and supremely elegant, with juicy balancing acids and tannins that caress the palate, concluding with a chalky finish. Like all of Richoux's 2015's, it's thrilling to taste now, but the real fireworks will come with some bottle age. Drinking window: 2020 - 2035" William Kelly, Wine Advocate

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Description

Once in a great while, you stumble on a hidden gem, even one that has been in plain sight for decades. Those familiar with Richoux order as much as they can year after year in anticipation of the moment—like any moment with a bottle of great Burgundy some seven or eight years after bottling—when it begins to whisper the potential of its greatness. That moment has arrived for today’s 2015, which is just now entering its perfect drinking window yet promises to drink beautifully into the next decade-plus.

The gorgeous village of Irancy is tucked in at the bottom of an amphitheatre covered in Pinot Noir vines about a 20-minute drive west from the centre of Chablis. It shares the same basic geology as Chablis: Portlandian limestone on the upper, flat sections and Kimmerigean limestone marls not so far down the slope and going all the way to the bottom. Irancy has a special climate for Pinot Noir because of its horseshoe shape that faces south, west and north, with another face that wraps outside the southwest corner with more south and west expositions, the location of La Palotte and Veaupessiot. Les Cailles is inside the amphitheatre on a soft slope of old vines. It’s notably more firm, mineral and straight than Veaupessiot and by comparison usually needs even another year or two for the charm to emerge.

Thierry Richoux's family have been growing grapes and producing wine in the picturesque village of Irancy since 1610. This wine is made using biodynamic practices. For more than thirty years Thierry and Corine have always strived to respect both the original and particular terroir of Irancy as well as the spirit of each vintage which must be returned as faithfully as possible even in the bottle. Harvest sorted and 100% destemmed.

Type	Red Wine
Varietal(s)	Pinot Noir
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Brand	Gabin et Felix Richoux
Vintage	2017

Wines from Burgundy

A legendary wine region setting the benchmark for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay worldwide. In the Jurassic time period, the area was part of a vast, tropical sea. Over hundreds of millions of years, the seabed transformed into various layers of limestone, sandstone and clay soils that have entrapped the fossils of ancient sea creatures. These soils are the secret behind the zesty minerality that Burgundy wines are famous for.

Burgundy is probably the most terroir-centric wine region in France. Huge emphasis is placed on the specific vineyard, soil type, elevation, and angle of slope where the wines were made. This is reflected on the wine's labels where appellations are more prominently displayed compared to the producers’ names.

The most prestigious wines of the region come from a long and narrow escarpment called the Côte d'Or split into the Côte de Nuits to the north and the Côte de Beaune to the south. Côte de Nuits produces many of the world’s finest Pinot Noir’s, all but one of Burgundy’s red Grand Crus are made in this area. Whilst interestingly, the opposite is true for the Côte de Beaune where all but one of the Chardonnay Grand Crus are made. From this information it may seem you should be buying a Pinot from the North and Chardonnay from the south, that is only true for the pinnacle of Burgundian wines. Both outstanding reds and whites are produced throughout the Côte d'Or.

In Burgundy, they use a wine quality tier system that goes:
Grand Crus 1.4% of total production
Premier (1er) Crus 10.2% of total production
Appellations Villages 37.3% of total production
Appellations Regionales 51.1% of total production

When one refers to “Burgundy wines” they are usually talking about those produced in and around the Côte d'Or. While the Chardonnay’s from Chablis and the Gamay’s from Beaujolais are formally apart of the Burgundy wine region, those subregions are generally referred to by their own names rather than being considered “Burgundy wines”.