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Vintage 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...