1999 | Domaine Roger-Joseph Belland | Pommard Les Cras

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Red Wine: 1999 | Domaine Roger-Joseph Belland | Pommard Les Cras

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Producer: Domaine Roger-Joseph Belland

Vintage: 1999

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Producer Information

Roger Belland is the fifth generation to run a family domaine that first saw light in 1839; and now, working together with her father, daughter Julie Belland is the sixth. The domaine is set in the old centre of Santenay-la-Bas, above the town square in the direction of the Château. Old though many of the buildings are, the cuverie facility is relatively new having been completed only in 1998. By Burgundian standards this is a large domaine; twenty-four hectares of vines that produce over ninety thousand bottles per year; one third of which is white wine, two thirds red. Belland’s vines are spread across the appellations of Maranges, Chassagne Montrachet, Puligny Montrachet, Meursault, Volnay and Pommard – not to mention their home-town of Santenay, where lies the heart of the domaine’s vines. This is not just a large domaine, it is a successful one too, producing wines with punchy but clean flavours from a range of red and white Santenay Premier Crus. Despite the importance of their Santenays, to leave it there would be to underplay the rest of the domaine’s offer; they own important parcels such as their three hectare monopole of a well-exposed corner of Chassagne’s Premier Cru Morgeot, the Clos Pitois (first planted in 1421, today to both red and white), and, perhaps the jewel in their crown, they also own the largest plot of vines in the Grand Cru of Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet – almost one-quarter of the whole appellation.