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Wine Description
The Story
Revered as the crowned monarch of the Côte de Nuits and the benchmark against which all masculine Burgundian power is measured, Joseph Drouhin Chambertin Grand Cru represents a masterful dialogue between formidable terroir density and the Drouhin house signature of purity, precision, and silk. Perched immediately adjacent to Clos de Bèze on the classic mid-slope of Gevrey-Chambertin, where thin, rocky topsoils overlie hard Jurassic crinoidal l...
Vintage 2014
The 2014 vintage in Burgundy was a very complicated one, although less so than those in 2013, 2012 and 2011, which featured dramatic crop shortages due to shatter, bad fruit sets and hailstorms.
In 2014, there were two problems which resulted in crop loss: hail in the Côte de Beaune, especially inMeursault; and poor flowering in some of the hillside vineyards of Puligny and Meursault.
The winter temperatures were above average with only ...
