Domaine Chicotot, Nuits Saint Georges

20/09/2024

11/02/2024

Des habitats pour nos auxiliaires si nécessaires.
Que seraient les vignes sans oiseaux, qui ont la capacité de protéger les bourgeons au printemps des terribles boarmies, de réguler les populations d'insectes, d'amener un peu diversité florale en se déplaçant d'un endroit à un autre ? Et j'oublie certainement de citer quelques autres qualités, comme chanter merveilleusement bien.
Pour les encourager à rester dans mes vignes où il fait bon vivre, de par une flore variée, une très faible mécanisation, un palissage plus élevé où ils peuvent évoluer librement, le temps de planter des arbres en choisissant les bonnes espèces et les bons endroits, j'installe des nichoirs au bon vouloir de l'espèce qui souhaiterait le prendre comme logis.
Ces nichoirs sont fabriqués par l'agef /esat de Nuits Saint Georges, validés par LPO.
Prochainement les chauves-souris pourront elles aussi rejoindre l'équipe, il n'y a jamais assez de bras, et d'ailes, pour faire de demain une plus belle viticulture.

19/08/2023

Alors que la semaine s'annonce caniculaire, certains prennent des mesures de protection, tandis que d'autres profitent bien de ce moment.
Les raisins ont franchi une belle étape dans la véraison, les herbes ont repris de la hauteur en raison des pluies qui ont leur ont offert un arrosage.
Bref, l'année n'est pas finie.

22/04/2023

Not already sure of what to drink tonight, but already sure of what to eat.

02/04/2023

First days of spring

Last vine to prune
Garden in the terraces
Enjoy the view

Ready for 2023 and all challenges.

05/03/2022

4500.

This is the number of stakes we changed this winter to obtain a higher trellising, 2000 only this week.
A huge thank you to the team for this challenge, we will continue and finish next winter.

23/02/2022

Special day !
Today we are in a new vine, in Côte de Nuits, exactly Corgoloin between Nuits Saint Georges and Ladoix.
Called '' le creux de sobron '', it's a third of a hectare with a beautiful soil and perfect exposition.

31/01/2022

A friend sent me ratings of Jasper Morris !
Many thanks I'm very grateful 🍷

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25/01/2022

Home made Melilotus, mélilot, sweet clover seeds.

This is the last harvest of my own production. A botanical story about my moving in a little village called Messanges in the '' hautes côtes de Nuits '', in a old winegrowers' house for which I fell in love at first sight. It has a bit of land that i let grow to reveal what could grow.
And surprise, many mélilot and so many many bees!

Extremely melliferous this plant and also very interesting for fixing nitrogen in the soil. That's why I prepare these seeds to sow in different vines and study the effect of this plant, with others natural grasses we let grow.

05/12/2021

Having small vines also means finding clean solutions to obtain an interesting number of bottles, avoiding the use of stainless steel tanks.

21/10/2021

I had the pleasure of receiving for the first time William Kelley, reviewer at Robert Parker/Wine Advocate. We talked a bit of everything, frost, vines, wine, a real good time. Now, I can show you his ratings:

This seven-hectare estate in Nuits-Saint-Georges is today under the direction of Clément Chicotot, who has embarked upon an ambitious viticultural program: working organically, he is planting fruit trees and experimenting with permaculture and permanent intra-row cover crops. Hedging of the canopies has been much reduced to once or twice per growing season, if at all. In the winery, some stems are retained—in general, around 50%, but there are not rules—punch-downs are carried out by hand, and there's no temperature control. Maturation is in barrels from a variety of coopers, including those of Dominique Laurent, and bottling occurs in January or February. The results of this serious and forward-thinking approach are promisingly concentrated and characterful wines, and this is clearly an address that we should be watching very closely. My
sense is that a few renements in the cellar (watching out for reduction, working on nding more synergisticcooperage, and extending the duration of élevage would be at the top of my list, were my opinion to be solicited) might catapult Domaine Chicotot to an even higher level of quality overnight.

We start by the south of NSG :

Bourgogne Côte d'or : 88/100
NSG Plantes au Baron : 91
NSG 1er cru Les Saint Georges : 93
NSG 1er cru Les Vaucrains : 92+
NSG 1er cru Les Pruliers : 92+
NSG 1er cru Les Rues de Chaux : 92
NSG 1er cru Les Thorey : 93
NSG Charmotte : 89
NSG Aux Saints-Juliens : 91
NSG Village : 89
NSG Aux Allots : 90+

In pink explanations in comment.