Sat 12 Sep: Domaine Dandelion, a little Burgundy secret
A LITTLE BURGUNDY SECRET 🤫🍷
We're opening some rather special bottles at Temple Cellars Tiong Bahru.
Join us for an intimate tasting of Domaine Dandelion, one of the exciting young names coming out of Burgundy's Hautes-Côtes de Beaune.
Based in Mavilly-Mandelot, Domaine Dandelion is the tiny domaine of Morgane Seuillot and Christian Knott, working just a few hectares of vines across the Hautes-Côtes. They make some of the most exciting new-wave wines rooted in age-old tradition.
Dandelion's excellence unsurprisingly starts in the fields, with the 6 distinct parcels of vines that are organically farmed and ploughed by horses. These horses are trained by Morgan's father, and these horses plough vineyards across the region.
Australian native Christian had been in Burgundy since 2009, working his way to as a winemaker at Chandon de Briallaes where he learned to balance tradition with a more experimental approach made without sulphur, fiing or filtration, using a combination of whole-cluster fermentation and semi-carbonic maceration that gives Dandelion wines their distinctive style: bright, aromatic, and uniquely layered with fruit and stone.
Dandelion is one of the reasons to explore beyond Burgundy's golden slope. The Hautes-Côtes are growing in terroir expressiveness, still carry sane price tags and deliver tension even in the hottest vintages.
The obvious case for the Hautes-Côtes is geological as they share the same parent rock as the Côte d'Or. The difference lies in the thin topsoil in the former, but they are both underlain primarily by Jurassic limestone and marl. In fact, the terroir in the Hautes-Côtes is more varied, with valleys that run perpendicular to the Côte d'Or, and some vineyards sit on steep, rocky limestone hillsides.
With global warming comes hotter and earlier vintages (like this year), and the altitude becomes an advantage. The Hautes-Côtes is cooler and higher than the more famous vineyards below, with some of Dandelion's parcels sitting at over 420 metres. The altitude and later ripening build complexity while retaining a beautiful freshness.
In the cellar, nothing is added (no sulphur, no nothing). He presses in an old, wood-beam, vertical screw press, and age the wines in neutral oak under his house, called the presbytère because it’s where the priest resided in the old days next to the church.
The result? Wines that are precise, energetic and remarkably expressive of their cool-climate terroir.
Join us and discover these special wines at our new home in Tiong Bahru. Quantities are tiny, seats are limited.
TASTING LIST
Pet-Nat 2025
Pinot de Zinc 2023
Sur La Plage 2023
Hautes Côtes Nature 2020
DETAILS
Temple Cellars (Tiong Bahru)
Saturday, 12th September
3pm - 4.30pm / 4.30pm - 6pm
$65pp online
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As seats are very limited in our new tiny Tiong Bahru home, we recommend booking a ticket in advance.