2023 Domaine Nicolas Rossignol, Bourgogne Pinot Noir

About this wine

Regional Bourgogne is where a domaine shows its hand, and Nicolas Rossignol's comes from serious ground: about three hectares of village-classified parcels on the lower, flatter land of Volnay and Pommard, brown clay and silt over rock, vines planted in 1930, 1950 and 1960, joined since 2013 by the 1922 plantings of his old-vine Héritières cuvée. The fruit is destemmed, cold-soaked for ten to fifteen days, fermented with indigenous yeasts and raised in barrel with a minimum of new oak, then bottled without fining or filtration.

2023 gave Burgundy a warm, generous crop with ripe tannins. Expect a concentrated, deeply fruited Pinot Noir that stays fresh: dark cherry and raspberry, a touch of spice, a mineral width to the palate and a structured, mouth-watering finish, a step above the usual regional wine. Drink now to 2031, with roast chicken, a beef bourguignon or a plate of charcuterie.

About Domaine Nicolas Rossignol

Nicolas Rossignol, born in 1974, is the fifth generation of winegrowers in Volnay. He vinified at the family estate, Rossignol-Jeanniard, from 1994, trained at Joseph Voillot, Vieux Télégraphe, Boschendal in South Africa and Château La Cardonne in Bordeaux, and created his own domaine in 1997 with three hectares in Volnay, Pommard, Beaune, Aloxe-Corton and Pernand-Vergelesses. It has grown to around seventeen hectares and some thirty appellations, almost all red, under a single label since 2011: village and premier cru Volnay and Pommard above all, plus Beaune, Savigny-lès-Beaune, Pernand and Aloxe. Farming is reasoned with organic and biodynamic methods; winemaking follows the cuvée and the vintage, whole clusters from none to all, indigenous yeasts, little new oak, no fining or filtration. The wines are energetic, structured and built to age: Volnay with a spine.