2024 Louis Billard Pommard Les Noizons, Cote de Beaune, France Domaine Anita dark earth

dark earth

The fruit was pressed and fermented in stainless steel tank using indigenous yeasts then transferred to neutral barrel for malolactic fermentation

stone fruits

Vines ranging in age from 5 to 40 years old

Barbera d’Asti is harvested from vines planted in 1940

2024 Louis Billard Pommard Les Noizons, Cote de Beaune, France Domaine Anita dark earthSunny, brown clay limestone on the mid to upper slope gives ripe yet lifted fruit, and the cuve is picked in the morning, cold soaked five days, then native fermented 15 days with pump overs to begin and light punch downs to finish, using 100% whole clusters; levage is 14 months in 500 L and 228 L barrels (25% new) plus 2 months in stainless, with slow lenticular filtration and ~15 mg L free SO (1,530 bottles).