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  • Producer ranking ?

    44
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now to 2030
  • Food Pairing

    Baked Goat Cheese with Glazed Baby Beets

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White wines: : Very early harvest - 5 days before the ban de vendanges - by special dispensation from the INAO.
Exceptional maturity of the grapes (13.2° to 13.8°) in all the appellations; grapes in perfectly healthy condition.
Whole cluster pressing; Light racking. The alcoholic fermentations started spontaneously after 4 days and were rather dynamic. By 23rd November, two thirds of the wines had finished their sugar/alcohol conversion, and...

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The Story

A small parcel, barely 0.40 ha, replanted in 1991. The soil is heavy clay on a subsoil of stony limestone. It faces due east and is situated on a steep slope level with the southern village exit.Yields are regular and require careful monitoring as they are producing highly powerful wines, but inconsistent and with very ripe aromas and an almost aggressive minerality when young.
Less finesse to be found than in other Premiers Crus but still a ...

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Wine Information

The weather /Winter took a long time coming. Autumn was mild, but a bitingly cold weather set in for Christmas. Frequent snowfalls as from January and it continued snowing regularly during the winter, and heavily (15 - 20 cm) in first week of March.

  • Spring began at the end of March with heavy rainfalls. Despite often showery and unstable weather conditions (storms in May), the vines started off well and grew regularly and homogeneously.
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Vintage 2006

2006 VINTAGE in Burgundy

The personality of Burgundy wines makes the difference

A charmer. Such is the epithet most frequently employed when Burgundy's newest vintage is evoked. Nearly two months after the grape harvest, and following a year typified by rather fantastical weather, Burgundy is finally catching its breath. The 2006 vintage, a preoccupying one which never allowed an idle moment, both in the vineyards and in the cellars, exc...

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Served blind. Pale golden. Minerals, some citrus, quite rich expression, fat style. Fresh acidity, lively, elegant, maybe more elegant palate than nose, on the ripe side but very refreshing. Playful, very long. Maybe a bit too up front and rich? 92

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Origin

Beaune, Burgundy

Vintage Quality

Above Average

Value For Money

Very good

Investment potential

No Potential

Fake factory

None

Glass time

1h

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