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IRANCY


Municipal naming of the vineyard of the Inhabitant of Auxerre, in the Yonne.
On the label, the mention of the name of the climate where from results the wine can be registered at once under the name of Irancy. Municipalities of production: Irancy, Cravant and Vincelottes. It is about a red wine stemming from some pinot noir. Its peculiarity is to contain in a optional way (until 10 %), of the Cesar, traditional vine to Irancy. Rich in tannins, colored vigorously, it is indeed imperial and offers to this wine an interesting personality for the amateur. Nuances appear as it is about frank vintages of pinot noir or about vintages tinged with Cesar. Under its well supported purple dress, firing slightly at the garnet and
Rich in reflections, it possesses a very fruity bouquet (blackcurrant, cherry Morello cherry, raspberry, blackberry) where sometimes enter floral scents and liquorice or peppered.

 

To the palace, its tannins base themselves to leave square with a firm and velvety structure.
Its acidity insures an excellent keeping (generally for 3 - 10 years).

 

In the Big Inhabitant of Auxerre and the department of the Yonne, Irancy is held on the right bank of this river in about fifteen kilometers in the South of Auxerre and in the southwest of Chablis. It is one of the most typical villages of the vineyard of the Inhabitant of Auxerre. The majestic church, the native house of the architect G. Soufflot (the Pantheon in Paris) and the beautiful houses vine growers form the decoration of a renowned red wine for a long time, and which received in 1999 the level of municipal naming IRANCY, confirming its qualities.

 

The landscape draws here a basin surrounded with its hillsides and the birth of a tray, with the Yonne which flows in their feet. It is mostly about marly slopes of the kimméridgien, qualified by calcareous brown grounds where blooms the pinot noir between 130 and 250 meters in height. The exposures are varied, in particular south / southwest. Certain soils are known and appreciated for a long time.

 

Red wines exclusively, pinot noir grape variety and Cesar.
The Cesar (approximately 5 hectares on the area of naming Irancy) would have been brought in the Yonne by the Roman legions. This strong plantation would give rather big, cylindrical clusters and spherical berries of black colour. Only, it gives a wine very colored in the aromas of red berries, certainly too rich in tannins.

 

Surface in production: 156,60 ha
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