Anne and Hervé Sigaut, Les Chatelots, Chambolle Musigny premier cru, Cote de Nuits, Burgundy, 2015

Tasting

The nose reveals aromas of raspberry and violet. A well-integrated wood adds complexity. Charming and fleshy, the palate offers immediate pleasure that also ensures this cuvée has great aging potential. Welcome to Chambolle-Musigny! With a fillet of venison, for example.

Food and wine pairings 

Braised duck with peas, veal shank with small vegetables, roasted stuffed goose, lobster in red wine, partridges, sweetbreads with morels, roasted quail, duck fillets, beef bourguignon, roasted woodcock, stew, lobster with coral sauce, spring veal chop, royal hare, matured rib of beef.

Technical characteristics

• Estate: Anne et Hervé Sigaut

• Cuvée:  Les Chatelots Chambolle Musigny premier cru

• Country: France

• Region: Burgundy

• Sub-region: Côte de Nuits

• Appellation: Les Chatelots Chambolle Musigny premier cru

• Color: Red wine

• Type: dry, still

• Vintage : 2015

• Area: 

• Average age of the vines: 45 years

• Grape variety: 100% Pinot Noir

• Terroir: A climate located in the center of the appellation, situated on a gentle slope and mostly resting on Comblanchien limestone

• Harvest: manual

• Format: Bottle 75 CL
  
  

About the 2015 vintage

TERROIR
A climate located in the center of the appellation, facing the combe that rhythms the slope. A sector situated on a gentle slope and mostly resting on Comblanchien limestone. The soil is poor and it is the mineral character that prevails. This situation makes it the most typical of the Chambolle-Musigny from the estate's cellar. Anne and Hervé Sigaut watch over these vines every day from their terrace...

SURFACE AREA
0.5 hectares

AVERAGE AGE OF THE VINES
45 years on average

About the estate

"The expression of a terroir"

Chambolle with two 'l's like lace... A name that sounds voluptuously to the ears of any wine lover on the planet. Few appellations have such a captivating identity. Especially when these terroirs are entrusted to demanding and talented winemakers like Anne and Hervé Sigaut. Refinement, elegance, femininity... The pinot noir grape finds here a form of culmination of its expression: aromas of blackberry and violet on the nose and a sensation of satin in the mouth. In this stronghold of great red Burgundy wines, a little over 150 hectares on a narrow band of vines stretching from north to south, the estate is established.

Anne and Hervé Sigaut live with their time, in the 21st century. But they never yield to the sirens of a supposed modernity that would distance them from the daily contact with their lands, their vines, their grapes. No superfluous equipment in the cellar: the hand of man remains for them the best guarantee of meticulous, sensitive, artisanal work.

As early as the 1950s, Maurice Sigaut was bottling his first wines: a Chambolle-Musigny premier cru Les Sentiers. In the 1970s, Hervé, Maurice's son, took over the baton. More recently, his wife Anne, who came to bring an added level of demand and daily determination, signed her first vintage. It was in 2004.

Throughout its history, the estate has always been aware of the exceptional value of its heritage: the diversity of its terroirs. A closeness to the land, as a guiding thread, that has met the passion for great wines. The family has shared so many great moments around a beautiful bottle patiently awaited in the cellar...

The fruit of meticulous work in the vineyard carried out throughout the season. Yield control knows no exceptions. “As long as I am not satisfied, I work,” summarizes Anne Sigaut. Green harvesting, the operation of cutting excess grapes as early as summer, is systematically carried out on each plot. A lace-making job entrusted exclusively to female staff. The generations that have succeeded one another have never practiced complete weeding, and the use of herbicides has not been in practice for about ten years.

Anne and Hervé Sigaut do not know any magic formula or revolutionary technique. Their credo: constant attention to the service of ripe, balanced, and healthy grapes.

Every year, a loyal team of 30 harvesters ensures the harvest in buckets and then in low-height crates. This method avoids any compression of the grapes. The bunches are then poured directly onto a vibrating sorting table.

A gentle destemming followed by a gravity-fed transfer into tanks allows for the vinification of perfectly healthy, intact grapes. The aromatic potential of the grapes is preserved to the maximum. “Pinot noir is a fragile grape variety, we must be as non-interventionist as possible,” explain Anne and Hervé Sigaut. A sparing use of new oak, averaging 25%, over a long period allows the different cuvées to patiently reveal the character of each of the Climats.

Finally, it is the wine that decides the best moment for bottling: simply the period when its aromatic expression is most developed and its balance most harmonious. It will then need at least 5 years of aging to reach its fullness.

 A delicious observation made by many enthusiasts of the wines of Anne and Hervé Sigaut around the world. In a great gastronomic restaurant or simply around a special meal at home...

We invite you to share our passion, to discover the qualities of a good Chambolle-Musigny and more generally of a great wine from the Côte de Nuits. The terroirs here are capable of very great feats when man knows how to give himself the means to highlight them. Come taste their secrets with us!

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