2018 Domaine d'Ardhuy Savigny Premier Cru Les Peuillets

Domaine d'Ardhuy is a Burgundy house that quickly became one of the top 5 producers in the region. Very extensive choice of terroirs, and high quality from the base to the Cru's.

Gabriel Ardhuy helped with the 1947 harvest in Burgundy and met his future wife Eliane, daughter of a winegrower from Burgundy. They have seven daughters. The d'Ardhuy family has long owned the trading house Pierre André, headquartered at Château Corton-André. This will be sold in 2002, so that all attention can be paid to the own vineyards and the development of the own domain. The Ardhuy family owns more than 40 hectares of vineyards in magnificent plots and also owns a company in the Rhone. For both domains a subsidiary has been appointed to organize it. At the beginning of 2003, Carel Voorhuis, son of a lawyer from Maastricht who had previously bought a winery in the Jura, comes in as a 'régisseur'. And then things go fast: already in 2004, the Revue de Vins de France chose Ardhuy as number 3 of producers in the Côte de Beaune and as number 4 in the Côte de Nuits.

At Savigny-lès-Beaune, this plot borders the road to Beaune, not far from the Rhoin River and below Les Hauts Marconnets and Bas Marconnets where a spring flows abundantly. The soil is moist and soggy. The name is derived from the old French Pol (pond or mire).

The Pinot Noir vineyard is on average 45 years old, located on a soil of limestone and silt with little clay on a substrate of gravel and sand. This well-drained and warm soil allows the grapes to ripen remarkably quickly and this plot is always one of the first to be harvested on the estate. This south-east facing plot is located on a very sloping slope at an altitude of approximately 240 m.
The Domaine d'Ardhuy Savigny Premier Cru Les Peuillets has a deep light red color with hints of brick. In the nose notes of plum, cherry and licorice. On the palate, the wine is powerful, full of firm acidity and refined tannins and oak tones. The wine is certified Organic by Demeter.