Description
The Marsannay `Clos du Roy` displays perfumed aromas of crunchy red fruits and violets. The palate is energetic and tightly wound with precise fruit, beautifully balanced with supple tannins and fresh acidity.
Pierre-Olivier Garcia founded his eponymous domaine in 2016, with a small parcel of vines in Nuits-Saint-Georges and an old house in the village centre, which he restored and converted into a winery. From the beginning, his project aimed to restore biodiversity in these vineyards, something Pierre-Olivier felt had been lost due to the focus on single-crop farming across the region. This ‘eco-attitude’ means Pierre-Olivier experiments with cereals, ploughing, planting trees and even using chickens to graze the land, in an attempt to bring back bees and butterflies to his 0.4 hectares of vines. In addition to this, he sources grapes from a network of grower friends, with whom he works closely to have as much control over fruit quality as possible.
Pierre-Olivier Garcia is an advocate for low-intervention winemaking. He uses no new oak, believing its character inhibits the wine’s ability to express its origin. He also pioneered ‘baie par baie’, or ‘berry by berry’, a painstaking process involving hand-cutting each grape from the bunch with the stalk intact. This technique takes 30 people an entire day to complete a single barrel, yet Pierre-Olivier perseveres with the practice as it enhances aroma and complexity in the finished wine.