Girardin Puligny Montrachet Vieilles Vignes

The vines are located in the puligny-montrachet village area in the south of the co;te de beaune. Puligny montrachet is the place where you can find the most famous grands crus vineyards (bienvenues-batard montrachet batard montrachet montrachet and chevalier montrachet). Soil: clay and limestone. The subsoil is composed of different limestone layers (pebbles marly soils). The slope is very low. 100% chardonnay – guyot pruning with different yearly works in the vineyard (pruning trellising on wires/tying-in thinning fruit-bunches). The grapes are harvested by hand and sorted out when picking the grapes. The grapes are wholly pressed in a pneumatic press at a low pressure to get a slow extraction. After a cold settling and a gentle racking of the must the wine is put in french oak casks (15% of new oak). The primary and malolactic fermentations can then begin with wild yeasts. The ageing is long on fine lees during 14 months. A month before the bottling the wine from the