Description

Facing South/South East with maximum sunshine, it nevertheless benefits from the influence of the Lavaux valley which brings it a lot of freshness. It is implicitly recognized as a Grand Cru. Clos Saint Jacques is one of the appellations that were forgotten during the classification of AOC Grands Crus. In fact, Clos Saint Jacques was a monopoly of the Count of Moucheron until 1954. It is said that this fervent royalist did not want to submit his wine to a republican system of classification of plots; hence its forgetting in the classification of Appellations d’Origine Contrôlée. The soils are very fertile. The very stony ground is composed, on the top of the Clos, of marl with ostrea acuminata giving a very shallow clayey soil. The water does not stagnate in the soil. It runs down the slope following the surface of the marl. The marl gives fatness bringing substance and specificity to the wines. The middle of the plot is on deeper soil (about 60 cm) resting on Bajocian limestone with entroques. The soil is rich in clay and limestone. The lower part of the plot rests on the Prémeaux limestones, giving soils rich in limestone and chailles.