Nouveautés
Nouveautés
Maison En Belles Lies
Pierre Fenals makes terroirs sing
It's no longer a secret. Pierre Fenals and his little Maison en Belle Lies, which has been in Saint-Aubin for a decade, are one of our favorites every year. Pierre is discretion and mastery. It's knowledge and modesty. At over 70 years of age, this confirmed neo-winemaker continues to surprise us year after year.
Pierre made us wait. His recalcitrant knees caused a few problems, it has to be said. But above all, Pierre had decided to push his breeding to 2022. Two years! We had to wait two years to finally taste his great 2022s.
Why this choice? Because he could afford it and because "it changes everything", as he likes to tell us with his big smile. "Winemakers often lack patience or unfortunately have too many financial constraints that force them to release wines too early." That's true...
And it's a fact that when you taste his 2022s, relaxed, well-bottled, you think this man from Saint Aubin is certainly right. In the end, maybe that's what wisdom is all about?
As always, thanks to his science, expertise and feeling, this exemplary winemaker has managed to take good care of his vines and get the best out of them. The whites are deep, precise and lively. They already taste wonderful, but the future belongs to them. The reds are fresh, elegant but not lacking in density. Still vinified without sulfur, as lively and crisp as ever, these Pinots and Chardonays are examples of mastery at every level.
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Aurore 2023
Maison En Belles Lies€19.00A rosé wine to enjoy with a meal. It has character and a very vinous side.
Parcel selection, Gamay vines planted in 1990 at Huire near Beaujeu. Altitude 400 m, southeast exposure. Gobelet vineyard on very siliceous soil, 25% slope, biodynamic viticulture. Direct pressing, cold settling without sulfur. Low-temperature vinification in stainless-steel vats, no chaptalization. At the end of fermentation, placed in barrels for six months. Racking, no fining, no filtration, bottled at the Domaine by gravity with no added sulfur.
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Jarre à Bia 2023
Maison En Belles Lies€25.00Maceration of whole bunches gives this wine very special characteristics. Beautifully aromatic, fresh and pure on the palate, light bitterness, fine acidity on the finish.
Selected plots of Aligoté vines planted at Les Genouvrées in Saint Aubin. Altitude 350 m, east-facing. Low biodynamic vineyard. Vinification and ageing in earthenware jars for seven months, whole harvest, no chaptalization, no added sulfur, indigenous yeasts. Light pressing in a vertical press in March, returned to the jar for one month and bottled by us without added sulfur, fining or filtration.
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L'Etrange 2021
Maison En Belles Lies€25.00Fresh fruit on the nose, full-bodied and frank on the palate, with a deep color and a finish of melted tannins. Fifteen months of ageing have given it a strong character.
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Aloxe-Corton 2022
Maison En Belles Lies€46.00The red clay soil with its round limestone pebbles gives a special character to this true Pinot noir. It's a wine full of strength and life that will need a few years to express its full potential. Straightforward nose of ripe red fruit, peony, violet and red rose, chocolate and spice on the palate, long persistence. A wine for laying down.
