Chantal Lescure: Meursault to Vougeot!
Chantal Lescure: Meursault to Vougeot!
Chantal Lescure 2022 Bourgogne Passtoutgrains
We love Passtoutgrains at Chambers Street and the 2022 Lescure is a terrific example. The mostly red fruit is bright and crisp, with a bracing vein of acidity, and there is the tell-tale fresh black-and-white pepper quality that is indicative...
$26.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Bourgogne Rouge "Les Verduns"
The Chantal Lescure Bourgogne Rouge "Les Verduns" is from 40 year-old vines on a soil of "marnes blanches" in this unusual south-west-facing parcel high on the slope adjacent to Pommard "Les Vignots." Vinification is 100% with whole-clusters, without addition of...
$34.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Cote de Beaune "Clos des Topes Bizot" Rouge
From vines planted in 1960, high on the slope in Beaune just above the 1er Cru L'Ecu, facing east, in a terroir of clay and pebbles over limestone. (The name refers to "toppe" meaning field or fallow land before planting...
$38.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Cote de Beaune "Clos des Topes Bizot" Blanc
"Le Clos des Topes Bizot" is a unique spot, high on the slope in Beaune just above the 1er Cru "L'Ecu," facing east, in a terroir of clay and pebbles over limestone. Harvested by hand into small crates, slow fermentation...
$38.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Cote de Beaune "La Grande Chatelain"
About a kilometer or two northwest of the Beaune 1er Crus, La Grande Châtelaine is a superb parcel on a cooler south-facing slope with thin soils of clay over limestone. The wine undergoes a long, slow fermentation in used barriques...
$41.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Meursault
.The Chantal Lescure Meursault is from a tiny parcel called "les Pellands" on deep sandy clay soils over limestone below "Charmes Dessous." There is a long, slow pressing at low pressure, followed by fermentation in barrel, 20% new, with minimal...
$74.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Volnay
The Chantal Lescure Volnay is from 50+ year-old vines on sandy clay soils over limestone. There is a long, slow fermentation with wild yeasts in cuve inox followed by 18 months in barrel, approximately 20% of which are new (500L),...
$59.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Pommard "Les Vignots"
The Pommard "Les Vignots" is from south-facing vines situated on the Montagne de Pommard, in a terroir of clay-marl. These 35 year-old vines grow in high elevation, about 330 meters above sea-level. (The name stems from a parcel of vines...
$59.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Pommard "Les Vaumuriens"
The Chantal Lescure Pommard "Les Vaumuriens" is from a steep northeast facing slope abutting Volnay, just above "Les Rugiens." The vines are 45 - 50 years old, grown on very rocky soils of brown limestone over limestone marl and hard...
$68.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Pommard 1er Cru "Les Bertins"
From organically farmed vines in 1er Cru "Les Bertins" in the southern part of Pommard, close to Volnay. "Les Bertins" has a greater amount of limestone than other Pommard premier crus, and the wines are sometimes a bit lighter and...
$86.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Beaune 1er Cru Les Chouacheux
From a 1.5 hectare parcel of 50+ year-old massale selection vines on clay/limestone soils rich in iron, in this excellent 1er Cru vineyard at the foot of the slope in Beaune. The vines "have their feet in the limestone" bringing...
$66.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Nuits-Saint-Georges
The Chantal Lescure Nuits-Saint-Georges village wine is assembled from three parcels on the Vosne-Romanée side ("Les Creux Friaiches Eaux," in the combe above "Aux Thoreys;" "les Tuyaux" and "les Herbues" at the foot of the slope next to Vosne-Romanée "Aux...
$73.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Nuits-Saint-Georges "Les Damodes"
From the village portion of Les Damodes above the 1er Cru on the Vosne side of Nuits St. Georges, at 320 metres, on a slab of hard pink limestone with shallow clay soils. Long-time organic farming, minimal use of SO2....
$81.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Vosne-Romanee 1er Cru "Les Suchots"
Nestled in between Richebourg and Romanée-Saint-Vivant and Echezeaux, Les Suchots is a premier cru break in the line of grands cru that runs from La Tache to Mazis-Chambertin, this is likely due to the small dip in the hillside that...
$199.99
Chantal Lescure 2021 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru
From vines in the upper part of the Clos (Lieu-dit "Montiotes Hautes") Terroir pebbly clay/limestone, 50% of the vines are 70+ years-old, 50% were replanted in 2011. (The exact position is a bit unclear on the Beteta maps, which put...
$259.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Clos du Vougeot Grand Cru
From vines in the upper part of the Clos (Lieu-dit "Montiotes Hautes") Terroir pebbly clay/limestone, 50% of the vines are 70+ years-old, 50% were replanted in 2011. (The exact position is a bit unclear on the Beteta maps, which put...
$279.99
Chantal Lescure 2022 Chambolle-Musigny "Les Mombies"
The lieu-dit "Les Mombies" has limestone clay soils washed down from higher on the slope, the vines average 40 years of age. The vinification is in tronconic wooden vats, aging is for 18 months in 30% new barrels, the wine...
$79.99
