Domaine de Montille
Beaune 1er Cru Les Sizies
Color Red
Grape variety pinot noir
Surface area 1,62 ha
Production 8 500
Share of whole harvest 33%
Share of new barrels 10%
Alcohol 13%
The appellation
“Sizie” refers to the name of a former owner of the plot back in the 13th century, Renaud de Sessie, who also owned important tanneries in Beaune. Planted on fairly clayey soil at the foot of the hillside, this vine offers us a generous, fruity, open, pleasurable wine that drinks well young but can be kept for a good 15 years too.
The wine and the style
Today's style remains faithful to Hubert's classic and terroir-driven approach, with greater aromatic expression, silkier and more unctuous textures in the reds, allowing them to drink earlier, without compromising their ability to age. The domaine is known in Burgundy for using a significant proportion of whole clusters that varies from one to cuvée to another depending on the plant material and the vintage.
Vine growing
Organic since 1995 and biodynamic since 2005. All our wines are certified by Ecocert.
The vintage

2022 embraces both quality and generosity, and reveals a vibrant and incredibly seductive profile with crunchy fruitiness.

Autumn and winter are mild with temperatures already higher than normal for the season and low rainfall. Temperatures continue to rise as months go by, reaching new heights with no less than four heatwave episodes but thankfully, although rare, the rains are sufficient and the vine keeps growing in the best possible conditions. The harvest begins in the last week of August. The hot and dry weather help limit the number of treatments to twice, three times less than the year before. The grapes are healthy, impeccable and the desired balance is there thanks to the light showers that fell in mid-August.

The aromas of fresh red fruit, the already silky tannins and the incredible energy seal a flamboyant future for this promising and already very accessible vintage. As for the whites, great balance once more, with a fruitiness that is both ripe and deliciously fresh.

Tasting note

This wine is a treat, a fruity bomb, both suple and sapid. The tanins bring muscles to the mid-palate and fade away to make room for an explosion of fruit. The kind of wine that should be shared, in magnum.

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