GRANDES MISES
SAINT-AMOUR 2024
Grape varietal
Black Gamay with white juice.
Tasting notes
With its attractive intense ruby colour and purple highlights, this vintage offers a delicate nose with aromas of black fruits and spices. On the palate, the spices and complexity are evident, with a full-bodied and generous structure supported by silky tannins and a lovely finish.
Serving suggestions
It would be recommended to appreciate this wine quite fresh, between 15 and 18°C. (59-64°F.), in order to be seduced by the complexity of its aromas.
Food and wine pairing
Poultry with cream and morrels pairs perfectly with this Saint-Amour.
Ageing potential
This Saint-Amour is full of charm in its youth. It can also be aged more than 5 years.
Origins
We all recognise that this most Northern Cru bears a name which is gentle to the ear and to the heart. It is the wine of poets and lovers. If it did not exist, life would be a little less charming. The village of Saint Amour gives its name to this wine. Before that, a long time ago during Gallo-Roman times, a centurion named Amor belonging to the Thébaine Legion, stationed in the Valais region of Switzerland and famous for his Christian faith suffered martyrdom. In all evidence, the ways of lovers, with their pleasures and sorrows, are rarely easy. Today the wine of Saint Amour shows two faces, according to the soil composition and indeed the vinification technique.
Terroir
The slighty slopes are the results of a strong alteration of old rocks. The extraordinary diversity of this cru can be explained by the presence of the two juxtaposed flaws: the limestone and the granitic soils.
Vine and soil
Vineyard age: 47 years old.
Yield: 56 hectoliters per hectar.
A rigorous plot selection is made on single estate.
Vines are planted on sandy soil, with old pebbly soils.They are pruned « en gobelet ». They are managed with substainable farming methods. It gives a extraordinary complexity to the Gamay wine!
Vinification and maturing
The harvest was carried out manually during the first week of September 2023.
The Gamay grapes were collected by our partner-growers, and then placed, with 100% whole bunches (without destemming), in concrete vats by gravity for a “Burgundy-style” vinification. Maceration lasted around 12-15 days with cap-punching, over-pumping and racking.
According to the plot selection, each cuvee was vinified separately. The wine was then aged in tank on fine lies.
A first bottling was made in July 2025 with a light filtration: 7,050 bottles in total.
Vintage : 2024
The winter of 2023-2024 was the 3rd warmest since 1900, with a particularly mild February. Spring was marked by heavy rainfall, with a notable lack of sunshine. Despite these conditions, temperatures remained above normal. Summer alternated between hot and cool spells, with hot spells in July. These climatic variations complicated plant health management in the vineyards, but winegrowers were able to keep the situation under control.
Yields for the 2024 harvest are expected to be low and very heterogeneous, with some plots suffering from coulure and millerandage. The first pruning began in early September. Harvesting was spread over three weeks, finishing at the end of September in the latest-ripening areas.
The reds have notes of raspberry, black cherry, pear and floral scents such as lily of the valley. Initial tastings reveal fruity, elegant, supple wines with a ruby colour. The range of aromas is broad, giving an impression of deliciousness on the palate, with a lovely freshness and pleasant complexity.
