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VOUGEOT PREMIER CRU
Le Clos Blanc de Vougeot Monopole
2019

Technical sheet

The appellation

The Clos Blanc, a mythical, mystical vineyard, is adjacent to the Château du Clos de Vougeot. This golden triangle, surrounded on all sides by great reds, first offered its pure, golden sacrament to its spiritual fathers, the first monks of Cîteaux, in 1110. Known as “The White Vineyard”, it is like a diamond set in the centre of rubies.

As old as the Clos de Vougeot, The Clos Blanc de Vougeot was Cîteaux Abbey’s song of praise. The monks planted the first vines nine centuries ago, and the white wine pressed from the golden grapes filled the abbey-church’s cruets for almost 700 years. Such precious drops of gold, blinding and rare, are like an island of Chardonnay in an ocean of Pinot Noir... A single violin at the heart of an orchestra.
The Clos Blanc de Vougeot used to be known as the Petit Clos Blanc de Cîteaux, or simply Vougeot’s white vineyard. Like the Clos de Vougeot, it was founded by the monks of Cîteaux, which was constructed on the nearby plain in 1098. Saint Bernard was almost certainly present at the first harvests in Vougeot, which date back to 1110.
This vineyard has always been planted with white grapes, a tradition started when the Cîteaux monks planted the forerunners of today’s Chardonnay to produce a white wine for their sacrament.
This walled vineyard is special for another very rare reason. Despite the French Revolution in 1789 when national property was sold off, the Clos Blanc de Vougeot remained a monopole, an undivided property. Nurtured by Jules Ouvrard then Jules Régnier in the 19th Century, it belonged to L’Héritier-Guyot in the 20th Century and now forms a part of the Domaine de la Vougeraie, sole owner of the monopole.

The vine

Le Grand Carré de la Vigne Blanche
Geographical situation: parcel on slight slope.
Exposure: East-facing.
Plantings: 1983-84 - 1988-89 - 1991-92.

Le Haut de la Vigne Blanche
Geographical situation: parcel on slight slope.
Exposure: East.
Plantings: 1995-96.

Geographical situation: the Vougeot appellation covers 68 hectares, 51 of which are taken up by the Clos de Vougeot. Nestled alongside a few climats, the Clos Blanc de Vougeot is just in front of the château, below the western half of the Clos de Vougeot’s north wall. The vineyard’s neighbours are Musigny and Les Amoureuses located in Chambolle-Musigny.

Grape varieties: 95 % Chardonnay,  4 % Pinot Gris (Pinot Beurrot) and 1% Pinot Blanc.

Soil and subsoil: very calcareous (white earth), probably silty clay subsoil. Ideal soil for Chardonnay..

Planting density: 10 000 vines/ha

Total surface : 3.0495 ha

Rootstock: 15 % of massal selection and 85 % of clones.

Organic agriculture: since 1998.
Received official approval in 1999.
Biodynamics: 2001.

Pruning: Guyot

Vineyard news: Ullage planted out. Earthing-up of the vines in winter. Spraying of nettle and rhubarb, horsetail, yarrow, tansy, comfrey tea during each treatment. Biodynamic preparations 500 and 501 at the end of the winter and of 501 in spring before the flower. Suckers removed in spring.

The wine

Harvest date: September 13th ,14th  ,19th  2019 (flower, leaf and root days).
Hand-sorted in the vineyard and on arrival in the winery.
Yield: 45 hl/ha

Press of whole bunches for 2h30.
Settling: 12 hours
Start fermentation in stainless steel thank and finish in oak barrels.

Length: 16 months in oak barrels and between 2 months in stainless steel thank.
New barrels: 25%
Origin of wood: Allier and Cîteaux
Stirring of the lees: twice a month during fruit days and rising moon until December.
No racked.

April 19th, 2021 (flower day) for magnums.
April 20th 2021 (leaf day) for jeroboams.
April 26th and 27th 2021 (root days) for bottles.
Limited to 14883 bottles 900 magnums 200 jeroboams

Family Domaine at the heart of Burgundy

Contact us

7bis, rue de l’Eglise
21700 Premeaux Prissey
France

Phone:
+33(0)3 80 62 48 25
Fax:
+33(0)3 80 61 25 44
vougeraie@domainedelavougeraie.com

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21640 - Vougeot
Burgundy - France
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+33 6 83 79 44 49
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