Bottling with classic cork.

The traditionnal corking wath abandoned in the eraly 1970s in favour of the metal capsule.

It is two year that we decided to use again this tradional method (so long and tedious) for some of our vintages. After tasting the cuvées of last year, and comparing them with the same "wine" with metalic cap, we found that maturity, body, quality of aging and the "opening" of the flavours was different, but very good, with the classic cork. So this year, it's more than 2000 bottles have been corked the old way.

Easy to recognize with the rectangular circle.

because this method has quite disappeared, it was hard to find old machines and operators able to wotk like in the past.But what a pleasure to watch these old mechanisms older than 40 years old working with so muche care and precision.

Manual feeling.

Corking and stapling.

This vintage 2012 classified Grand Cru is blended with 70% of Pinot Noir and 30% of Chardonnay both from Verzy and Verzenay. It will age 5 years in our cellar before the "degorgement".