Michel & Joanna Ecard, Savigny-les-Beaune 1er Cru Les Serpentieres, 2009 Chacra 2023 and the complexity that time

and the complexity that time in bottle delivers

From biodynamic vineyards in the Grand Cru of Verzy

the grower who did as much as anyone to rescue this nearly-extinct Piedmontese white from oblivion

and is known for generous fruit and a signature dose of new oak

Michel & Joanna Ecard, Savigny-les-Beaune 1er Cru Les Serpentieres, 2009 Chacra 2023 and the complexity that timeA seventeen year old premier cru red Burgundy that's arrived exactly where you want it. The Ecard name runs deep in Savigny les Beaune: Michel is the son of Maurice Ecard, one of the village's benchmark traditional growers, and he launched this domaine with Joanna in the mid 2000s working old vines the family has farmed for generations. Les Serpentieres is one of Savigny's finest premier crus, a fully south facing slope of stony limestone marl that