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
- March was sunny and budburst happened too early. 5th of April frost made big damages in Puligny. Flowering occurred lately, with wind and rain, many flower aborted, confirming a low yield vintage. Fortunately, summer was hot and dry, enhancing maturation and sugar concentration by the end of summer. Harvest started 13th of September. White wines are generous and fruit driven, but high acidity gives a good concentration and length. Red wines benefited from the hot summer with a complex bouquet and round tanins.