It is an enjoyable wine that is extremely delicious, fruity with a lovely depth and intense colour. Extremely expressive wine that bursts in your mouth.

Coming from a long ancestry of 11 generations of father-to-son winegrowers, François Raquillet took over the estate in 1990 with his wife, Emmanuelle. The estate grows 14 hectares of vines and provides a wide range of white and red wines. Mercurey is a Côte Chalonnaise village appellation. It is one of the most important wine appellations in Burgundy with 670 hectares of vines.

The soil is cultivated mechanically with several tillage operations a year. The vine is debudded to provide light in the middle and obtain optimum health for grapes. Leaves are removed from the vine. This work is an alternative solution to using anti-botrytis. The grapes are picked by hand and placed in boxes. They are then sorted on a table. The vineyards are tended according to the conventional integrated pest management method. Completely destemmed then gravity fed into stainless steel containers, the grapes are then placed in vats for cold (12°) pre-fermentation maceration for 5 days. Fermentation occurs naturally with indigenous yeasts present on the grapes and
in the fermenting cellar. Alcoholic fermentation in vats and malolactic fermentation in barrels. No punching down of the cap, pumping over twice a day on a daily basis is preferred. By simply pumping over, we preserve the freshness of the wine and its fruit. Devatting after 15 to 20 days followed by pressing. It is placed in barrels, approximately 40% new barrels. This cuvée is bottled after 12 months of ageing. To be consumed between 2 and 5 years.