Lot presentation

Auxey-Duresses Les Crais Alain Gras 2023

The wine

The Auxey-Duresses Les Crais comes from 40-year-old vines planted on clay-limestone soils and farmed using reasoned viticultural methods. The grapes reach optimal concentration thanks to green harvesting, and the parcel is harvested by hand. When tasting, this wine has a brilliant pale yellow yellow colour. We appreciate it for its subtle aromatic expression, which combines white flowers and citrus fruits. After an élevage in casks, of which 30% new oak, the finish is lifted by a delicate toasted oakiness. With its great freshness, this wine can be enjoyed either young or after some years of aging.

About the Producer Alain Gras

Alain Gras, descendant of a family of Burgundy winegrowers, settled in Saint-Romain in 1979 with the aim of promoting this appellation, still relatively unknown to wine lovers. And yet, with colossal cliffs protecting the vines from the wind, limestone soils perfectly adapted to producing fine wines, and several hundred hectares planted in the commune, everything was in place for the appellation to rival its more famous neighbours on the Côte.
Today, the estate covers 15 hectares of vineyards in the Saint-Romain, Auxey-Duresses and Meursault appellations. Working with a sustainable mindset, the estate follows traditional methods in the winery for both vinification and ageing, always with one goal in mind: crafting wines that are generous, mineral and elegant, wines that can be sipped, enjoyed young or after a few years in the cellar. This is a challenge that has been brilliantly met, and one that Alain and Nathalie’s son, Arthur, is preparing to take on himself as he trains in viticulture.
Producing red and white wines, Alain Gras ranks among the finest estates for enthusiasts with a taste for still affordable Côte de Beaune wines. A real iDealwine team favourite which we urge you to taste without delay.