The two parcels we cultivate belong to the family. The first was planted in 1947 and the second in 1976. Our yield does not exceed 35 hl per hectare, placing our annual production in the region of 4,000 bottles.
The vines are 100% Pinot Noir.
The vines are cultivated using non-certified organic methods.
The subsoil consists of a layer of brown silt on a base of fractured rock.
Each batch of wine is vinified in tanks for about 15-17 days, then transferred into oak barrels, where it remains for a minimum of 14 months. We use approximately 35% new barrels.
The wine produces intense aromas of red fruits-cherries, delicately smoked meats, and is pleasantly fresh in the mouth, with blackberry, pepper, liquorice, and tobacco-chocolate. It has excellent ageing potential (10 to 15 years). It can be served as an accompaniment to cooked red meat or game. It is also ideal with very good quality raw milk cheeses.
Tasting notes
Delicately meaty nose, stale meat, and flowers such as geraniums, earth, red clay, birch-like bark, dried flowers … Noticeable gains on aeration, including fruit in the space of a few minutes – blueberry, blueberry jam, morello cherries, cherry stone, prune stone; a floral character also develops after aeration – peonies, more and more expressive; the nose detects the vertical more and more, a subtle minerality, a metallic note between pencil lead and steel, quickly changing in contact with the air.
Raspberry on the palate, raspberry liqueur, cherry jam, coarsely ground black pepper, bark, slightly more angular tannins than in the previous wines, slightly drier fruits, ashes, charcoal; the fruit progresses as it reacts with the air, increasingly spicy, blueberry and blackcurrants, candied cherry, traces of orange and watermelon.
Focused, tense and precise finish, ripe to very ripe tannins, nice length; this Santenots is superb and more mineral than ever before, particularly intense as it lingers; ink, a touch of blood in this wine, and another of pomegranate.
Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY ‘s tasting notes – Retailer ; “De Corps et d’Esprit” in Paris
