Pinot Noir
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed within 1 to 5 years of release to appreciate its vibrant, youthful energy, though well-stored bottles can evolve beautifully over 5 to 8 years.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, wild mushroom risotto, seared salmon
✨ Technical Specifications
Frédéric Cossard's négociant Pinot Noir is a masterclass in low-intervention winemaking, reflecting his deep-rooted belief that wine should be a living, breathing expression of its terroir. Sourced from organically farmed vineyards across Burgundy, this wine is crafted with Cossard's signature hands-off approach: whole-cluster fermentation using indigenous yeasts, long macerations, and aging in old oak barrels or concrete eggs, entirely without the addition of sulfur dioxide. Cossard, a former milk broker who turned to winemaking in the 1990s out of a passion for pure, unadulterated flavors, has become a legendary figure in the natural wine movement. This Pinot Noir captures that rebellious spirit, offering an incredibly vibrant, energetic, and raw expression of the grape, characterized by bright red fruit, earthy complexity, and a wild, untamed elegance that challenges traditional Burgundian paradigms.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1996 by former dairy technician and wine broker Frédéric Cossard, Domaine de Chassorney emerged from the high-altitude, limestone-rich enclave of Saint-Romain in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune. Expanding from his core estate vineyards into an adventurous micro-négoce under the Frédéric Cossard label, he works across Burgundy, the Jura, Beaujolais, and beyond. Cossard champions a holistic, self-devised 'homeopathic' viticultural method grounded in biodynamic preparations and rigorous soil health. In the cellar, his philosophy is strictly non-interventionist and uncompromisingly clean, relying on negative-ion oxygen sterilization instead of sulfur dioxide. White grapes undergo extended pressing and long spontaneous fermentations without temperature control, while red and macerated cuvées see gentle whole-cluster infusions in open wooden vats, concrete eggs, or qvevri. Known for benchmark skin-contact expressions like 'Feel Good' and 'Rafling' alongside pure expressions of Saint-Romain and Savagnin, Cossard's wines are renowned for their electrifying vitality, textural purity, and luminous clarity.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Noir