2023 Domaine de Cassiopée, En Gerlieus, Bourgogne Rouge

About this wine

Talloulah Dubourg and Hugo Mathurin founded Domaine de Cassiopée in 2020 with a few hectares in Maranges and the Hautes-Côtes, and En Gerlieus is their Bourgogne rouge: 0.9 hectare of old Pinot Noir at Chassey-le-Camp, ten kilometres from the cellar, an isolated, stony hillside facing north-east and surrounded by woods, planted beside their Aligoté. The vines are farmed organically, certified since 2023, and picked by hand. In 2023 about a third of the crop went in as whole clusters, the fermentation ran on indigenous yeasts, and the wine aged in barrels with very little new oak before an unfined, unfiltered bottling with at most a whisper of sulfur.

Expect dark cherry and blackberry, violet, a stony, savoury core, fine tannins with real grip for a regional Bourgogne and a long, fresh finish. Drink now to 2031 with duck, roast lamb, a beef bourguignon or a mushroom dish; an hour in a decanter helps in its youth.

About Domaine de Cassiopée

Domaine de Cassiopée was founded in January 2020 in Sampigny-lès-Maranges by Talloulah Dubourg and Hugo Mathurin, both born in 1994, both trained oenologists with time at Mugnier, Clos de Tart, Roulot, Benjamin Leroux and Marie-Thérèse Chappaz behind them. They farm a little over five hectares across eight plots in six lieux-dits of the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune, Maranges and Bourgogne, including old vines of 90 to 110 years in Maranges, organically from the first day with certification in 2023 and a lunar calendar for racking and bottling. In the cellar: indigenous yeasts, barrels of 228 to 450 litres alongside amphorae and a terracotta vessel, little or no sulfur, no fining, no filtration.