Michel & Joanna Ecard, Savigny-les-Beaune 1er Cru Les Serpentieres, 2009 Chacra 2023 longer élevage

longer élevage

silky tannins

and the complexity that time in bottle delivers

It comes from a single twenty-hectare vineyard at the Tenuta Tignanello estate in Chianti Classico country

with essentially nothing added at dosage to soften it

Michel & Joanna Ecard, Savigny-les-Beaune 1er Cru Les Serpentieres, 2009 Chacra 2023 longer élevageA seventeen year old premier cru red Burgundy that's arrived exactly where you want it. The Ecard name runs deep in Savigny les Beaune: Michel is the son of Maurice Ecard, one of the village's benchmark traditional growers, and he launched this domaine with Joanna in the mid 2000s working old vines the family has farmed for generations. Les Serpentieres is one of Savigny's finest premier crus, a fully south facing slope of stony limestone marl that