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White wines : We pressed the whites for quite some time to extract a juice that was difficult to extract, in some cases by crushing the grapes, in other cases by leaving the bunches whole. The alcoholic fermentations started spontaneously 4 or 5 days later, the juice being racked into barrel the following day.
On 30th November, many vats were approaching the end of their sugar-to-alcohol fermentation. The wines seemed to be fermenting easily ...
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The Story
The vines were planted in two stages by Auguste and Pierre Morey. They are old, weak vines producing little (between 20 and 35 hl/ha). Badly affected by fan-leaf degeneration, they have improved considerably since the application of biodynamic preparations. The parcel is situated at the far south of Montrachet also facing south. The soil is fairly dark, quite deep and stony. It consistently produces wines rich in alcohol, balanced out by their...
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The Weather / A classic autumn was followed by a winter that was marked by bitingly cold weather - down to minus 12ºC in the second week of January - and regular snowfalls. The vineyards were for the most part snow-covered until the 7th March.
- Bud-break took place at the end of March, in time for the Easter period.
- The month of May was unsettled, alternating abnormally warm periods with snaps of unusually cold weather. The rainfall rem...