2024 Louis Billard Pommard Les Noizons, Cote de Beaune, France Domaine Anita Malolactic fermentation: it is not

Malolactic fermentation: it is not controlled

this wine speaks to Lamblot's diligence in the vineyards and deft hand in the cellar

stone fruits

“Mare” comes from a single hectare of 70-year-old Lambrusco Marani planted in sandy loam soils

The fruit was pressed and fermented in stainless steel tank using indigenous yeasts then transferred to neutral barrel for malolactic fermentation

2024 Louis Billard Pommard Les Noizons, Cote de Beaune, France Domaine Anita Malolactic fermentation: it is notSunny, brown clay limestone on the mid to upper slope gives ripe yet lifted fruit, and the cuve is picked in the morning, cold soaked five days, then native fermented 15 days with pump overs to begin and light punch downs to finish, using 100% whole clusters; levage is 14 months in 500 L and 228 L barrels (25% new) plus 2 months in stainless, with slow lenticular filtration and ~15 mg L free SO (1,530 bottles).