Domaine Berthelemot is a family business based in Meursault and cultivating 15 hectares in the Côte de Beaune area (Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet, Pommard, Beaune....). Our pledge is to produce wines revealing the true quality characteristics of the land and take care to protect the environment. Our wines are certified "organic" from vintage 2021.
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The vine
Plot /climat
Les Tillets
History
The old form of linden, trees found on the slope, were widely used in medieval medicine.
Soil
Rendzina soil (slightly leached on a limestone slope). Humic horizon composed of gravelly scree and white marls, over hard limestone bedrock. The bedrock, made of Bathonian limestone, is sometimes close to the surface.
Our plot(s)
25a 83ca. The plot was planted in 1962. Southeast exposure. Located at the top of the slope, with an altitude ranging between 320 and 340 meters.
The wine
Description
100% Chardonnay from handpicked grapes; vinified and raised in oak casks.
Taste
Due to its altitude, the terroir of Les Tillets shares a gustatory resemblance with its neighbor Puligny-Montrachet. The wines feature elegant aromas based on minerality, with a taut, almost slender mouth, full of energy and distinction. Les Tillets climat refers to the linden tree, which the taster will be able to identify in the wine.
Serving temperature
12/14°C. It is recommended to decant recent vintages so as to enhance the aroma.
The vintage
- At last ! Following several vintages hit by serious hailstorms (2012,13,14) 2015 started with mild, dull but early march fair conditions. Several dry and sunny periods and rainfalls at the right time accompanied paced the development of vegetation ; hot summer, the grapes were ripe and sound by the 1st of september for a great harvest. The grapes were gold in colour, perfect ripeness ! the wines are pure and elegant, well balanced and pleasantly rich on the palate.