Joseph Drouhin Beaune Clos de Mouches Rouge Côte de Beaune 2021

Name: Joseph Drouhin Beaune Clos de Mouches Rouge Côte de Beaune 2021
Brand: Joseph Drouhin
SKU: OATJOSEPHDR14
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About this Wine

An exceptional wine. Beautiful deep-red ruby colour with the bright sheen of great Burgundies. Intense and fresh nose for the young wines. Primary notes of red fruit dominate such as Morello cherry (“griotte” or wild cherry) raspberry blackberry. There are hints of complexity with smoky flavours evolving towards liquorice. When the wine is maturing aromas of pepper tobacco humus and undergrowth appear. When drinking the wine the first impression is always clear-cut and the texture fleshy. The body is firm without be- ing rough well meshed without being heavy. There is great freshness in the younger wines. With age the wine gets rounder. It takes on “gras” (velvety texture) and a more precise architecture supported by silky tannins. It is lively and refined at the same time. There remains a final and most pleasing sensation of harmony fullness and delicate tannins as the wine lingers on the palate.

Type	Red Wine
Varietal(s)	Pinot Noir
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Appellation	Côte de Beaune
Brand	Joseph Drouhin
Vintage	2021

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”.

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