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Wine Description
The Story
Les Petits Monts is a small 3.67 hectare Premier Cru vineyard in Vosne-Romanée that lies above Richebourg. Facing east, northeast from elevations ranging between 280 and 340 meters, the soil is quite rocky. The origin of the name is straightforward and suggests only the size (petit=small) of the hill on which the vineyard is situated.
Wine Information
The free run wine and the press wine are then blended and left in vats to settle the lees, a process that takes close to ten days, before transferring the wines into barrel when they are as clear as possible, since the wines are rarely racked during the aging process. Clarification enzymes are used to hasten the process should the vintage require this step. The wines are put into barrel by gravity in the cellar.
The wines are aged in new oa...
Vintage 2013
HARVEST REPORT 2013 RED BURGUNDY
As far as weather was concerned, 2013 was not your typical year. It was at times cool, then hot with severe storms, followed by heavy rains hailstorms and then dry times with some occasional warm periods. It is a vintage that growers are calling the ultimate terroir vintage. Whenever you have a vintage that is not over ripe or alcoholic, or under ripe and very acid, the terroir can show through. This is not ...
