Domain De Montille Volnay Taillepieds 2020 Bottle (75cl)
Domaine Hubert de Montille presents a 2020 red Volnay 1er Cru from Burgundy, made from 100% Pinot Noir and sourced from the Taillepieds climat. This cuvée comes from a mid-slope hillside with an east-southeast exposure, where light brown clay soils are mixed with numerous small stones. The estate farms 1.51 hectares in this Volnay Premier Cru. For the 2020 vintage, roughly two-thirds of the harvest was vinified with whole clusters, a practice consistent with the style of this cuvée.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Red
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Volnay
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Hubert De Montille
- Parcelle / Cru
- Taille Pieds
- Millésime
- 2020
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Pinot Noir
Domaine Hubert De Montille
Domaine de Montille is a family-run estate based in Volnay, in the Côte-d’Or, whose vineyards now extend across the Côte de Beaune and the Côte de Nuits. Owned and managed by Étienne de Montille, it cultivates 37 hectares, predominantly in Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards, across appellations such as Volnay, Pommard, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet and Vosne-Romanée. The estate, historically associated with Volnay red wines, has also been producing white wines since the incorporation of the Château de Puligny-Montrachet vineyard.
- Owner
- Étienne de Montille
- Maître de chais
- Brian Sieve
- Surface (ha)
- 37.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- environ 180 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
The estate’s origins date back to the 1730s, when the Chauvelot de Chevannes family, who owned vineyards, settled in Volnay. The estate took the name Domaine de Montille in 1863, following the marriage of Marie Éléonore Chauvelot de Chevannes to Étienne Joseph Marie Léonce Bizouard de Montille. In the 19th century, the estate comprised around 30 hectares of vineyards in the Côte de Beaune and the Côte de Nuits. However, the consequences of the phylloxera crisis and a series of sales reduced the estate’s holdings to around 2.5 hectares by the end of the Second World War. Hubert de Montille took over the estate in 1947 and set about gradually rebuilding the family vineyard, whilst producing and marketing his wines himself rather than selling the grapes to wine merchants. His son Étienne joined the estate in 1983, before becoming co-manager and head of winemaking in 1995, the year in which the transition to organic farming began. He took full charge of the estate in 2002 and subsequently expanded the vineyard, notably through the acquisition of plots in the Côte de Nuits between 2003 and 2005. In 2012, the estate acquired the Château de Puligny-Montrachet, adding around 15 hectares of white grape vineyards to its holdings. The vineyard now covers 37 hectares, and winemaking is overseen in the cellar by Brian Sieve, the cellar master, with Jacques Montagnon responsible for the white wine production processes.
Taille Pieds
Taille Pieds is a demarcated climat in Volnay, officially approved for the Volnay Premier Cru denomination, and corresponds to the cadastral lieu-dit in section AX. It occupies a pronounced hillside in the upper sector of Volnay, near Clos des Chênes and above Les Caillerets and Les Champans. Its poor, pale, limestone, and very stony soil rests on hard Jurassic limestone dating to the Middle and Upper Oxfordian.
- Vineyard commune
- Volnay
- Origin of the vineyard name
- The name is traditionally linked to the steep slope and sharp stones of the hillside, which would have worn out or cut the vignerons' feet and shoes.
- Exposure
- Southeast, with sectors facing east/south
- Slope
- Steep to very steep slope
- Soil
- Poor soil, whitish to light brown, highly calcareous and covered with small pebbles.
- Subsoil and geology
- Hard Jurassic limestone, attributed to the Middle and Upper Oxfordian; bedrock locally outcropping.
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 1.510000 ha
- Indicative vine age
- The oldest vines of Taillepieds were reported to be 65 years old in 2016.
Histoire de la parcelle
The climat is recorded as early as 1507 as "En Taillepied" or "Taille Pied" in the rental survey of the royal estate of Volnay, which notably mentions two ouvrées of vines in this location. The name "Taille Pieds" is now listed in the official specifications of the AOC Volnay among the climats that can accompany the "Premier Cru" designation.
