La Chassornade・Frederic Cossard・2021

La Chassornade・Frederic Cossard・2021

Product name: La Chassolnade

Producer name: Frederic Cossard

Variety: Aligote

Region: France > Burgundy

Category: sparkling

Capacity: 750ml

CHF 59.00
 
CHF 59.00
 

Soil: Clay and limestone. Primary fermentation: Wild yeast, 1 month in stainless steel tank. Secondary fermentation and aging: 19 months + α in bottle.

The harvest date was September 24, 2021. The yield was 30hL/ha. This year's fermentation was vigorous, so the vines were fermented several times during the fermentation process to slow it down.
The style has been changed from a regular cork with a crown attached to a champagne cork. Residual sugar is 2.6g/L. Gas pressure is 3.8 atmospheres. The plot name is Veves, adjacent to the Vudeaux vineyard.

The color is a cloudy pale lemon yellow. The aroma is of lemon, queschi, and flint. It has a gentle, enveloping foam and a mellow texture, and the citrus extract, like grapefruit, blends beautifully with salty minerals and sharp acidity.

Product name: La Chassolnade

Producer: Frederic Cossard

 

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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 on his father's orders to train at a dairy company near Boston for two years, 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 prior knowledge, he started knocking on the doors of Burgundy with just paper, pencil, phone, 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, working as a wine blender 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 Négociant Frédéric Cossard, which continues to this day.