<p>Their colour is gold flecked with emerald, darkening towards yellow with age. Their bouquet evokes butter and warm croissants, bracken, dried fruit, spices and honey. Body and bouquet are not separately distinguishable, so closely blended are structure and harmony into a single perfect whole. Unctuous and firm, dry and caressing, enveloped and profound, these wines combine every virtue in a firmly-established personality.</p>

<p><span>Givry is the jewel of the Burgundy subregion, the C&ocirc;te Chalonnaise. It is responsible for structured wines of a density that at their best, boast an uncanny resemblance to far more expensive expressions from Gevrey-Chambertin, located farther south on the C&ocirc;te d&rsquo;Or. This is because both communes are marked by a prevalence of ferrous red clay, punctuated by varying degrees of limestone and its many permutations.</span></p> <p><span>The Givry AOC was created in 1946. It is embellished with 38 Premier Cru sites, albeit, no Grand Cru vineyards. There are 270 hectares under vine from which approximately 1.7 million bottles of wine are produced. Red wine production constitutes 80 per-cent of the total, or slightly less than 1.4 million bottles. Fruit for wines labelled as Givry may come from the communes of Givry, D