This cellar wine oscillates between powerful and solidity with extremely silky tannins on the palate and finishes with minerality, which adds freshness. This wine continues to mature gradually developing a smoother texture after a few years.

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.

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. Alcoholic fermentation in vats and malolactic fermentation in barrels.

Very little punching down of the cap, pumping over twice a day on a daily basis is preferred. Devatting after 18 to 22 days followed by pressing.