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Viinin Kuvailu
The Story
Romanée-Conti lies on brown limestone soils 60 cm deep with a major clay component. Romanée-Saint-Vivant has similar but deeper (90 cm) soils. Higher up, La Romanée occupies a markedly sloping site (12%) and the soil texture is less clayey. La Tâche and La Grande Rue share brown limestone soils, rather shallow at the top end with deeper rendzinas lower down. The same is true for the Richebourg, depending on slope and aspect. The underlying roc...
Vuosikerta 1972
The 1972 Burgundy harvest stands as a notoriously severe, high-acid, and light-bodied vintage defined by a freezing, rainy spring that disrupted flowering and led to severe coulure, followed by a sunless, damp summer and heavy autumn rains that prevented Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from achieving full phenolic ripeness. Harvesting under cold, rainy conditions through October, domaines struggled with rot, low sugar levels, and aggressive malic ac...
