2017 David Duband Bourgogne Rouge

Region:  < Burgundy < France Grapes: Pinot NoirVineyard/Cellar Stats: Organic farming dry-farmed, limestone/clay + stony soils; 70-80% whole cluster; pigeage (punchdowns) is made by foot to not break stems and begins after fermentation starts; 17-18 day fermentation, then pressed and settled in tanks for 2-3 weeks to allow for whole cluster ferments to settle more clearly; aged 14 months in old 225l barrels, then racked to steel tanks 2 months before bottling; bottled unfined/unfiltered with 7ppm SO2; 12.5% ABV Winemaker: David Duband David was just a young lad in winemaking school when he stared his estate in 1991 in the Côte de Nuits, the most northern part of the central area of Burgundy.  He converted to organics in 2006, and over the years, he has extracted less, used less oak and increased his use of whole cluster fermentations in all of his wines. His natural, minimal-intervention approach is turning heads in Burgundy, a region of reverence by the world’s wine elite that