Portfolio : Anne et Hervé Sigaut

Anne et Hervé Sigaut

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Anne et Hervé Sigaut work a small domaine across Chambolle-Musigny and Morey-St-Denis, and the range is exactly what those two villages promise: Chambolle’s perfume and lace, with Morey’s darker fruit and firmer spine underneath.

The holdings are old. Les Sentiers (vieilles vignes), Les Fuées, Les Noirots, Les Chatelots and Les Groseilles make up the Premier Cru heart of the range; Les Bussières, also vieilles vignes, sits with them. Two village Chambolles, Les Babillères and Derrière le Four, fill out the picture, and from Morey-St-Denis come the Millandes.

The winemaking is unhurried and traditional. Fruit is picked when it is genuinely ripe, fermented with the indigenous yeasts of the cellar and raised in barrel with a modest share of new wood, so that the vineyard is what you taste first. These are wines that show well young for their fragrance and hold for a decade on the structure beneath it.

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