At Domaine Corsin, quality starts in the vine. The special soils deserve just as much attention as the grape itself: cultivating the earth, pruning the vine, protecting the leaves… A ritual that is repeated over and over again and yet yields different results every year given the living matter that is being nurtured. Nature is the ultimate order-giver!
Our forefathers observed the flower of the lily to set the date of the grape harvest: the 100th day after flowering. Today, the frequent inspections, the methodical analyses and the comparison of data make it possible to fix the right day to launch the harvest.
For 15 days, manual cutters, carriers, pressers, carefully gather the golden bunches of grapes from the Chardonnay vines.
Even if the quality of the harvest is crucial for that of the vintage, it is only the beginning of a long process which determines whether the crop will be a good one: starting up the fermentation at the right moment, observing and controlling temperatures, allowing the wine to express its true character…
Wine-growing remains a wonderful and mysterious alchemy between secular traditions and modernity, between the special touch and know-how transmitted from generation to generation.
That subtle combination, in which human enterprise still has pride of place, is what will give the wine its personality. At Domaine Corsin, a good dose of genuine passion also comes into play, resulting in the production of wines that live up to the most reputed appellations in Burgundy.