Philippe Gilbert Menetou-Salon Rouge 2023

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Philippe Gilbert Menetou-Salon Rouge 2023Philippes flagship Menetou Salon Rouge (100% Pinot Noir) offers mesmerizing purity of fruit, with a silken, vibrant texture complementing a sense of mouthwatering sappiness. Fermentation (spontaneous, of course) and aging take place in a massive 90 hectoliter tronconic oak cask, whose large size and relatively low porosity allows Philippe to use a bare minimum of sulfur (40 milligrams per liter in total) during the levage. The chalky thrust of the

The domaine owns four small parcels totaling 1

terrace rubble higher up on its eastern flanks

From 25-year-old vines in the Champs Rouge vineyard in Passenans

Temperature is rigorously controlled

Aged for 18 months primarily in older barrels with a portion in steel

The Schoech brothers acquired a small parcel of quarter-century-old Pinot Gris vines on the terraced

a structure deriving more from intense calcareousness than overt tannins

Based on Prugnolo Gentile aka Sangiovese (85%) and Mammolo & Canaiolo (15%)

Gianluca loves to experiment with the fruits of his terroir

it will continue to develop layers of nuance for at least a decade

It is a site that always asserts itself with force

without any of the secondary varieties that frequently make appearances in these appellations