Exclusively hand picked fruit, placed into 200 kilogram crates in order to minimise damage to the berries and extraction of red colour from the skins. The crate are stacked into refrigerated rooms and cooled to 4C for maximum flavour retention. Grapes are gently whole bunch pressed, a process that extracts a very fine and delicate juice. Juice are clarified and fermented at controlled temperatures. The percentage of Pinot Noir has gradually been increased to give greater depth of flavour, it now sits at eighty percent. The final assemblage spends twenty seven to thirty months on tirage before disgorging and liqueuring to full Methode Traditionelle.