{"product_id":"2024-domaine-arlaud-morey-saint-denis-les-ruchots-1er-cru-burgundy-france","title":"2024 Domaine Arlaud, Morey-Saint-Denis, Les Ruchots, 1er Cru, Burgundy, France","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of Domaine Arlaud begins with a wedding. In 1942, Joseph Arlaud, a young man from the Ardèche, married Renée Amiot, whose Burgundian family gave the couple vineyards in Morey-Saint-Denis and Gevrey-Chambertin as a wedding present. Joseph began adding parcels in 1949, and in 1966 he acquired a 600-year-old cellar in Nuits-Saint-Georges, once the town’s salt store, that has appeared on every Arlaud label since. His son Hervé took over in 1983 and kept adding. The estate now covers 17 hectares and 19 appellations, including parcels in four grands crus. Hervé’s son Cyprien joined in 1998 and spent the next sixteen years taking the domaine organic and then biodynamic. In 2014 Arlaud became the first estate in Morey-Saint-Denis to hold Biodyvin certification. Since 2004 his sister Bertille has plowed the five hectares of premier and grand cru vines with the draft horses Nougat and Oka, whose hooves leave the soil loose where a tractor would pack it down. For years Cyprien braided only the Bonnes-Mares, weaving the canes along the top wire rather than hedging them, which spares the plant the stress of cutting and shades the fruit. In 2024 he extended the practice to every premier and grand cru. In the gravity-fed winery designed in 2003, the fruit is sorted on three lines, ferments uncrushed on indigenous yeasts in open vats worked by foot, and ages 15 to 18 months in barrel with no more than 20 percent new oak before it is bottled on the lunar calendar without fining or filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLes Ruchots sits at the Chambolle end of Morey-Saint-Denis, directly below Bonnes-Mares and Clos de Tart with Chambolle's premier cru Les Sentiers alongside. Many consider it the finest premier cru in the village. The name descends from reuchaux, the old Burgundian word for the rocks that break the surface here, and the plot rests on the same band of limestone that runs through Clos de la Roche. Walls on three sides shelter it from the north wind, making this one of the warmest climats in Morey. The Arlaud holding is 0.70 hectares planted in 1955, good for about 3,600 bottles in a normal year. In 2024 the fruit was fermented with a third of the clusters whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2024 shows raspberry, wild strawberry and petrichor, with chalky, grainy tannin and a crack of black pepper at the finish with more momentum than a year this lean tends to produce. Drink 2028 through 2045.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67895106765096,"sku":"AT24ARLAUDRUCHOTS750","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/DomaineArlaud_Morey-Saint-Denis_LesRuchots.jpg?v=1792513088","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/2024-domaine-arlaud-morey-saint-denis-les-ruchots-1er-cru-burgundy-france","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}