Rafling・Frederic Cossard・2021
Product name: rough ring
Producer name: Frederic Cossard
Variety: Riesling
Region: France > Burgundy
Category: 白
Capacity: 750ml
Soil: muddy calcareous. Fermentation: 14 months with natural yeast. Aging: 11 months in a 7hL egg-shaped cement tank, 7 months in a stainless steel tank.
The harvest date is October 18th, and the yield is 30hL/ha. The grapes we buy are from a grower with 26 years of biodynamic experience in northern Alsace. The field is Grand Cru Bruedertal, where Cistercian monks are said to have cultivated grapes in the 13th century. Due to AOC rules, etiquette prohibits the wine name from being written as Riesling, so we named it the similar Danish word Raffling (Raffling in English).
The color is a transparent pale lemon yellow. Aromas of grapefruit, white flowers and saltwater. The wine is sharp and slightly crisp, with pure salty extract, lemon-like citrus acidity, and rich minerality that blend beautifully.
Frederic Cossard
The current owner, Frédéric Cossard, launched Domaine de Chassolnay in 1996.
Frederic grew up in a family of dairy farmers with no connection to wine at the time, and under the influence of his strict father, he studied milk fermentation at ENIL (National School of Dairy Industry) in order to take over the family business. After graduating from school, he was forced to travel to the United States at his father's behest for a two-year internship at a dairy company near Boston, but he faded out after three weeks. After that, he decided not to take over the family business, so he left his father's care and jumped straight into the world of wine, which he had always been interested in. At the age of 23, he studied wine at the winemaking schools of Beaune and Savoie and started working for Cloutier with minimal investment. Frédéric Cossard With no information, he began knocking on the doors of Burgundy with just paper, pencil, telephone, and car, and gradually gained the trust of his customers by persistently negotiating wine deals. Along the way, he worked as a cloutier for 10 years while being in charge of wine blending at a négociant in Nuits-Saint-Georges. During that time, he said, ``I drank all the wine in Burgundy,'' and decided to start a domaine in order to create his own ideal wine. In 1996, he launched his long-awaited domaine with his mother-in-law (at the time). In 2005, they built a new winery, and the following year they started Negociant Frédéric Cossard, which continues to this day.