Marcel Servin 2020 Blanchot Grand Cru

Our Tasting Note: Medium straw yellow. A pronounced nose and muscular palate is chiseled, with a firm streak of slate like minerality underlying a salty lime and tangy but creamy lemon peel. Medium bodied, with med+ acidity and a long, mineral, saline and citrus finish.

Blanchot stretches over 12.7 hectares, on the east of the Grand Cru appellation. This complex terroir is known for being difficult to work. Because it faces east and southeast, its sun exposure is somewhat limited. Despite only benefitting from the morning sun before it disappears, Blanchot remains, paradoxically, a warm terroir. Its steep slope and sheltered location result in slow ripening conditions, with a harvest that generally starts well after that of its neighbor, Les Clos. In some places, poor clays with shells, stones, or even blue and green sticky draining clays replace the Kimmeridgian limestone in the subsoil.

Age of Vines - 50
Case Made - 100
Cellar Potential - 7-15 years
% of New Oak Barrels - none, raised entirely in stainless