Welcoming the grapes without any preconceptions is the first and most important stage in the work carried out by Legras & Haas in the cellars.
Jérôme : « We need to take time to get to know the harvest first, treat it with respect and neutrality, take the time to let the mosts tell us a story, give ourselves a few days in order to imagine its future before drawing a path for the wines to be. With time comes intuition.»
Working as a team is central to the house’s approach especially when it comes to the blends. Rémi, Olivier, Jérôme and the house’s oenologist Maxime craft all the blends together in a perpetual state of broad-mindness.
Winemaking is not an attempt to revel in your own accomplishment it is a permanent effort to communicate an emotion as well as an origin.
Maxime : « I come from a family of winemakers, I grew up on a large wine estate in Lebanon. I met the Legras-Haas family in 2020 during my last DNO internship and I joined the house in 2022, we have a good study program and big projects. »
Legras & Haas skillfully plays on the diversity of its vineyards, grape supply and reserve wines in order to reflect the exceptional ripeness of the Chouilly, the freshness of the Perthois and the strength of the Riceys. With the ambition to achieve with every year more precision and brighter emotions.
Patience is key in winemaking, each step is followed by rest. This is a catalyst for quality and complexity. Carefully chosen aging period in tank and barrel before bottling, in bottle “on lees” aging, post “degorgement” cellaring before releasing the bottles all play a role in making a wine whole.
Jérôme : « The Legras et Haas style is a wine that hits just the right note, a wine that respects its origins and carries a certain wholesomess. »
Rather than effusive adjectives and enigmatic terms, what we prefer to talk about is the fruit. This fruit that we need to preserve and leave to ripen. Then let time slowly apply a beautiful patina, when fruit fades it leaves behind something that cannot be defined, such incredible shapes, such beautiful movements . The Legras brothers believe that the radiance and clarity of the aromas resulting from the ageing process can only really be harnessed if there is purity of fruit, freshness and grace in the wine’s youth.
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