Nicole Lamarche Bourgogne Côtes de Nuits Villages Rouge 2023

Red Wine
Pinot Noir
Burgundy, France
2023

In short Delicate, perfumed Côtes de Nuits from rocky limestone slopes south of Premeaux; pure and crunchy, with silky red fruit, peppery spice, chalky tannins and compelling length.

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About this Wine

This is the third release of Nicole Lamarche’s Côtes de Nuits-Villages and part of the expanding négociant range she created to bring her finesse-driven style to a broader collection of Burgundy terroirs. Lamarche works with organic growers whose vineyard standards mirror her own, then handles the wines with the same gentle extraction and restrained élevage used at the domaine.

Nicole has deliberately kept the exact source quiet, but the vineyard lies on rocky limestone slopes south of Prémeaux. This southern end of the Côte de Nuits-Villages appellation runs through Prémeaux-Prissey, Comblanchien and Corgoloin, where limestone and clay soils can produce Pinot Noir with genuine Côte de Nuits character without the price attached to the better-known village names.

The 2023 is pure and immediately inviting: silky red fruit, fresh raspberry, fine spice and delicate tannins rather than extraction or weight. It is a very Lamarche interpretation of the appellation—perfumed, fluid and fine-boned, with enough limestone tension to keep the wine moving through the finish.

Type	Red Wine
Varietal(s)	Pinot Noir
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Brand	Domaine Nicole Lamarche
Vintage	2023

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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