Le Grand Châtelaine 2022 is a natural wine crafted by Domaine Emmanuel Guboulot, in the Burgundy region in France. This white wine is made with Chardonnay grapes, which are sourced from the Côte de Beaune, on clay and limestone soils with pebbles on bedrock. This Le Grand Châtelaine 2022 wine is aged on the lees for 12 months before being bottled.
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On the hillside of the “Montagne de Beaune”, above the 1ers crus, unfolds the very old vineyard of the “Côtes de Beaune”. This uncommon appellation extends over only 52 hectares. It is one of the smallest in Burgundy.
Although their names are similar, the Côte de Beaune appellation should not be confused with “the Côtes de Beaune Villages” (3,222ha). Indeed the productions concerned are very distinct: the first concerns only the Beaune production, and the second, that of 14 villages of the coast, Beaune excluded.
“La Grande Châtelaine” takes its name from the distortion, over the ages, of the pronunciation of a medieval sharecropping contract:
“legrand de cheptel”. It is a low vineyard of an average age of 30 years. “La Grande Châtelaine” is located.
