Nuits-Saint-Georges Rouge Les Argillats
At a Glance
- Size: 0.65 ha (1.61 ac)
- Variety: Pinot Noir
- Vine Age: Planted in 1962
- Terroir: Brown topsoil of finely-textured clay-limestone with white cryoclastic scree from Oolitic and Comblanchien limestone. Subsoil of fossilized oysters and Bajocian-era marl.
- Viticulture: Lutte raisonnée
- Vinification: 18 days alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel tanks. Aged for 15 months in barrel (30% new).