Domaine Felettig Vosne Romanee 2018 75cl

Tasting Note

“A spicier if slightly less floral-suffused nose freely offers up a ripe array of primarily red berry fruit scents. There is terrific vibrancy to the middle weight flavors that possess excellent cut while exhibiting an acidulated cherry candy-inflected finish that flirts with sweetness. I suspect that the sweetness will attenuate will age and overall this impressively persistent effort is also one to check out.” Allen Meadows, Burghound.com

Producer

If any domaine has made more dramatic progress over the last handful of vintages, we would be very surprised. Why? Quite simply, Gilbert Felettig was dissatisfied with his 2009s, which he found over ripe and excessively oaky. He therefore set about changing everything. Henri Felettig, a former vineyard worker, founded this domaine in 1974. His children Gilbert (viticulture and vinification) and Christine (commercial) joined him in 1993 and now run this 12.5 hectare domaine, which comprises some 100 individual parcels! Viticulture is now organic, with no use of herbicides or insecticides, their vines are mostly old (40-50 years) and everything is harvested by hand. Following a rigorous selection, during which the grapes are sorted in both the vineyard and cuverie, they then undergo a 5-7 day cold maceration at 10°C prior to fermentation and a three week cuvaison.

_{Country: France | Region: Vosne Romanee, Burgundy | Alcohol: 13.5% | Grapes: Pinot Noir | Organic}