2022 Domaine de la Croix Senaillet Saint-Véran, Burgundy, France

ABOUT THIS WINE

17 ha. scattered across all village hillsides on about 40 parcels known as : Maillettes, Bergades, Poncétys, Terres noires, Pommards, Chênes, Surigny, Prâgnes, Bruyère, Chailloux. Parcels face south-east, due east or due south and a few other are located on a plateau. Average age of vines 45 years-old. Vines are pruned according to the Mâconnais system, Guyot or Acure with around 10 buds. 

Destemming is used to avoid herbaceous taste. Slow and gentle pneumatic pressing guarantees purity of juice and extraction of the finest aromas. Very slow temperature-controlled alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel tanks generally ending by January. Malolactic fermentation follows. Matured on fine lees in tanks and aged in barrels for 10 months.

ABOUT THIS PRODUCER

Domaine de la Croix Senaillet is in Southern Burgundy, in Davaye in the very heart of the Maconnais Cru area. Maurice Martin settled in Davaye and then fully devoted his life to the vines from 1969. Due to his unfailing doggedness, a truly strong character, with his wife and family to back him up, without whom nothing would have been possible, the family estate slowly grew. Today the 26 hectares of the estate covers a mosaic of over 150 different plots of vines that are part of the “Grand Site de France” of Solutre – Pouilly – Vergisson. The vines, with an average age of 40 years old, are exclusively of the Chardonnay grape variety. Most of the plots face the rising sun on gentle slopes that extend from the eastern faces of Solutre and Vergisson. 

Richard and Stephane Martin, took over the estate in 1992, bringing with them new blood, new ideas and a single watchword; quality. Stephane’s responsibility is in the vineyard while Richard oversees the cellar. The cellar, built in 1989, was modernized in 2000-2002 and again in 2006. Since the 90s the Martin brothers, strong partisans of integrated agriculture, have been protecting their vines with a treatment strategy of minimum intervention, to have healthy vines, with no pollution and respect for the environment over the long term. Certified by Agriculture Biologique in 2006.