Maurice Charleux & Fils Maranges Premier Cru "Les Clos Roussots" 2022
(Burgundy, France)

About this Wine:
Maurice and Vincent Charleux are third- and fourth-generation vignerons farming 10 hectares in the villages of Maranges (west of Santenay, in the Côte de Beaune) and Santenay. Les Clos Roussots is a premier cru vineyard in Maranges. Soils are blue-colored clay/marl mixed with limestone debris. Farming is lutte raisonée and  fermentation is with indigenous yeasts. This is honest, generous red Burgundy with an excellent quality-price ratio.

Though the hill-slopes are differently oriented to those of the Côte de Beaune, their nature and origins are geologically the same, making up a varied patchwork of hills and valleys. The vineyards mostly have a south/south-westerly exposure and lie at altitudes of 240-400 meters. Cheilly, in the valley of the Cozanne, has rather light pebbly soils. Sampigny and Dezize share the climats (named plots) which lie to the south of Santenay on brown limestone soils and limey marls.

Tasting Note:
Typical for the climat, this Maranges 1er Cru Les Clos Roussots is fruit-forward and full of aromas and flavours of small red fruits, particularly raspberry, and it also has attractive lashings of vanilla and spices.

Color: Deep red

Bouquet: Game and leather complex aromas, blended with notes of wild berries and undergrowth.

Palate:  A rich and well-balanced wine in the mouth, with a certain vivacity and pleasant wooded aromas.