Saint-Amour 2022
AOC Saint-Amour
The vineyard of Château des Bachelards was created by the Benedictine monks of Cluny around the year 1100.Today, it spans 18 hectares, all farmed using organic and biodynamic practices, respecting this monastic heritage.The absence of chemicals in the soil for 18 years, along with biodynamic practices, allows the terroir to fully express itself in the wines of the Bachelards.
The Saint-Amour from Château des Bachelards comes from mid-slope, south-facing plots. The terroir is decomposed blackgranite with veins of loess and clay. The deep soil gives the wine surprisingly dense tannins and great uprightness.This is a Saint-Amour built for ageing, but already ready to drink in its youth.
TASTING:
This Saint-Amour 2022 is characterized by its elegance. A brilliant garnet-red color, thenose is a bouquet of subtle flowers, mingling orange and violet. On the palate, the attack isgreedy and silky, enhanced by astonishing tension and great persistence. The finish isdazzlingly pure, fresh and graceful.
PAIRINGS:
Saint-Amour from Château des Bachelards will beautifully pair a roasted chicken, a guineafowl or a quail. More generally, it is also the wine that will enhance white meats and finesauces. It will also find a nice pairing with chard, pumpkin or a potato gratin.
Andy Howard MW: A lifted nose, then bright and clean on the palate. Very typical of St-Amour, full of vibrancy, elegance and mineral edge, with a distinctive limestone freshness.
Melania Battiston: Dark cherries and plums with some almost balsamic undertones coming through. Structured, fleshy with cashmere-like tannins to support long ageing.
Victoria Daskal: Beguiling, long and lingering, with bursts of bright redcurrant and cranberry fruit, then a turn towards savoury and meaty, almost smoked charcuterie notes. Complex yet also approachable.
“Enticing nose of red fruit and violets with a hint of minty freshness. Good concentration, a wide spectrum of berry aromas and stacks of fine tannins make this a very impressive wine for Saint-Amour cru. I love the mid-palate richness and the really long, elegant and silky finish. The hint of bitterness helps lift the medium to full body.”
VITICULTURE:
Organic certified FR-BIO-15 and biodynamic certified by Demeter and Biodyvin. High density (10 000 vines/hectare), very old Gamay vines under massal selection. Agroforestry and plant cover in the vineyards for biotope balance and biodiversity. Hand-picked fruit at optimum maturity in 16kg boxes only. Very low yields of around 30 hl/ha.
VINIFICATION AND AGEING :
Reception of grape harvest by gravity, destemming, vinification in raw concrete vats, 28-day vatting time, 18-month ageing in French oak casks in order to preserve its freshness and to consolidate its substance. Indigenous yeasts only, no carbonic or semi-carbonic maceration, no thermovinification.
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