In the glass
What it pairs with
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Filet de boeuf en croûte
Beef Wellington-style richness matches the wine's full body and firm tannin. -
Lapin aux pruneaux
Dark-fruit Moulin-à-Vent finds a mirror in slow-cooked prune-and-rabbit. -
Comté 36 mois
The wine's mineral depth and firm structure pair with deeply aged Comté.
History
Trois Roches ('three rocks') is Pierre-Marie Chermette's Moulin-à-Vent single-vineyard, farmed on the manganese-rich granite soils that give the appellation its Burgundian structure. Chermette was an early champion of Moulin-à-Vent's ageing potential.
- 1995 — Vissoux begins farming the Trois Roches parcel in Moulin-à-Vent
- 2005 — Trois Roches gains attention as a reference Moulin-à-Vent capable of decade-long ageing
Facts
- Producer
- Domaine du Vissoux (Pierre-Marie Chermette)
- Grapes
- Gamay
- Classification
- Moulin-à-Vent AOC
- Oak
- Old Burgundy barrels 12 months
- ABV
- 13.5%
- Price
- €22-32 at retail
- Drinking window
- 4-18 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1995
- Organic
- ORGANIC CERTIFIED