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Raudonasis sausas
The wine is fruity and charmer. The tannins are soft and round with a lot of silk. Really good balance.
Serve at 16-18 °C with red meat, tuna, duck in cranberry sauce
10–15% new oak. Destemmed because of the calcaire majority. (Stems better suited to fruit from clay, giving energy and length.) Deep cherry red. Five parcels, four below the premiers crus on clay and one terre blanche high up, stony. The latter is 60% of the harvest and picked later. Vinified separately and blended before barrel. A very slight toasty, grilled note but it is from the terroir, ‘grilled minerality’ not to do with the oak. There’s a definite smoky/stony character, not toasty. Dense and rich and powerful but still scented with deep-red Volnay fruit. More powerful than his Pommard village wine. Really powerful and rich. But juicy on the finish. A powerful, chewy Volnay but packed with fruit.
Nicolas Rossignol was born 1974, the 5th generation of winegrowers in Volnay. He makes the vinifications since 1994 on the family estate Rossignol-Jeanniard. After studies in high school of wine making in beaune, Nicolas practices on different estates like Domaine Joseph Voillot in Volnay, Domaine Louis Latour in Ardèche or Domaine du Vieux Telegraphe in Châteauneuf du Pape. Also in South Africa at Boschendal in 1995 and then in Bordeaux at Château La Cardonne manage by Château Lafite Rothschild. In 1997, he created his own estate with 3 ha on the village of Volnay, Pommard, Beaune, Aloxe-Corton et Pernand-Vergelesses. In 1998, the size in total is about 16 ha. In 2005, some news appellations arrive with Savigny-les-Beaune 1ers Cru Fourneaux and Lavières and also Beaune 1er Cru Clos du Roy. In 2011, only one label Domaine Nicolas Rossignol with 30 different appellations in total. The vineyard moved to Beaune for more space. In 2014 an other 1.5 ha on Pommard 1er Cru and Pommard increase the production of the estate. For 2016, Nicolas is planning to build a new winery to continue to produce good wine. The estate is about 17 ha today.
