2018 Domaine Ponsot Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru "Cuvée des Alouettes", Burgundy, FranceABOUT THIS WINE VINE AGE 30 years old GRAPE VARIETY & DENSITY Pinot Noir 10,000 vines per hectare (4,050 vines per acre) SOIL TYPE White Oolite HARVEST Hand picked into wicker baskets Strict sorting in the vineyard VINIFICATION Maceration in oak vats for around 2 3 weeks on average AGING 18 months in 5 to 30 year old oak barrels ABOUT THIS PRODUCER Domaine Ponsots history begins in 1872 when William Ponsot purchased a wine estate in Morey Saint Denis

once a very well-known region

The vines are 20 years old on average and are planted on gravelly-sandy soils

Bottled without filtration

Nicole’s father

family and epic stories told around the table

handing over the winery to Fred

Two years later we partnered with Presqu’ile Winery in Santa Maria

The grapes are skin fermented with native yeasts for 3 days in stainless steel before racking into a large used oak cask

This temperate

he believes that there is no grape more special than Zinfandel

it produces wine from 92 hectares of native mountain strains of Garnacha

which gives the wine riper texture and deeper flavors