Cremant de Bourgogne ‘Reserve’

Appellation

Crémant de Bourgogne

Varieties

Aligoté, Chardonnay, Gamay, Pinot Noir

Viticulture

Hand-picked grapes. Transport of the harvest in open-sided bins of 45kgs to eliminate any damage to the berries.

Terroir

Marine and limestone deposits with limestone outcrops.

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Vineyard

The caves Bailly Lapierre groups 430 winegrowers who provide the grapes for making Crémant de Bourgogne. During the Jurassic period 250 million years ago, the slow breaking-up of the Pangaean land mass gave rise to the Tethys Sea. Present-day France was completely under water. A few islands emerged, tropical in type, and the landscape would have been like the Caribbean as we know it: an island (now the Morvan), a coral barrier reef (Mailly-le-Château and Arcy-sur-Cure) and a shallow lagoon (Saint-Bris) forming a habitat for shellfish and ichthyosaurs. Slow sedimentation resulted in the build-up of great limestone deposits that erosion later cut away, forming the Yonne valley and the limestone outcrops, more or less deep, that run from Courson-les-Carrières to Châtillon-sur-Seine. Thus the site at Bailly was born.

Vinification

Airbag presses. Must obtained on the basis of 100 litres of juice from 150kgs of harvest: 75% first pressing, 25% second or later pressings. Both yeast and malolactic fermentations carried out, blending of separately-made wines, then preparations for bottling that is carried out after January 1st.

Aging

Extended maturing, 12 months on average, bottles inverted on racks in natural cool and half-light of the underground cellars hewn out of the limestone bedrock.

Features

Bottle, Cork

Available Sizes (L)

0.375, 0.750