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2022 Irancy “La Grande Côte”

Benoît Cantin
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Ah, Irancy…the “other” red Burgundy, if you will, deep in the countryside, making wonderfully rustic wines like you can’t find elsewhere anymore in Burgundy. The climate is northern, the exposition southern (La Grande Côte is considered the best spot in Irancy for this), giving chiseled, precise tannins with delicate red fruit. The domaine ages their wines in bottle in their cold cellars as long as needed for them to open up, however long that may be, leading to mountains of bottles stacked high in the cellars awaiting their call. The 2022s have just been tasted, approved, and released for our pleasure by the Cantin family. 

Chris Santini

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Technical Information
Wine Type: red
Vintage: 2022
Bottle Size: 750mL
Blend: Pinot Noir
Appellation: Irancy
Country: France
Region: Burgundy
Producer: Benoît Cantin
Winemaker: Benoît Cantin
Vineyard: 30-40 years, 16 ha total
Soil: Kimmeridgian limestone
Aging: Wines are aged in 228L oak barrels (15% new) for one year; The oak comes from the family’s own land and from the Les Bertranges forest.
Farming: Sustainable
Alcohol: 13%

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About The Region

Burgundy

map of Burgundy

In eastern central France, Burgundy is nestled between the wine regions of Champagne to the north, the Jura to the east, the Loire to the west, and the Rhône to the south. This is the terroir par excellence for producing world-class Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.

The southeast-facing hillside between Dijon in the north and Maranges in the south is known as the Côte d’Or or “golden slope.” The Côte d’Or comprises two main sections, both composed of limestone and clay soils: the Côte de Nuits in the northern sector, and the Côte de Beaune in the south. Both areas produce magnificent whites and reds, although the Côte de Beaune produces more white wine and the Côte de Nuits more red.

Chablis is Burgundy’s northern outpost, known for its flinty and age-worthy Chardonnays planted in Kimmeridgian limestone on an ancient seabed. Vézelay is a smaller area south of Chablis with similar qualities, although the limestone there is not Kimmeridgian.

To the south of the Côte de Beaune, the Côte Chalonnaise extends from Chagny on its northern end, down past Chalon-sur-Saône and encompasses the appellations of Bouzeron in the north, followed by Rully, Mercurey, Givry, and Montagny.

Directly south of the Chalonnaise begins the Côte Mâconnais, which extends south past Mâcon to the hamlets of Fuissé, Vinzelles, Chaintré, and Saint-Véran. The Mâconnais is prime Chardonnay country and contains an incredible diversity of soils.

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Living wines have ups and downs just as people do, periods of glory and dog days, too. If wine did not remind me of real life, I would not care about it so much.

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