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Wine Description
The Story
Le Clos des Forêts Saint Georges covers an area of 7.2 hectares in one piece. A unique terroir and a privileged location have shaped one of the great wines of Nuits Saint Georges from the start.
Site: Le Clos des Forêts Saint Georges covers the entire geological palette of the hillside of Nuits Saint Georges: Ladoix limestone at the bottom of the hill, Premeaux limestone in the middle, and white oolites limestone for the upper part, with ...
Wine Information
The weather: The early, dry and warm spring contributed to early budding and flowering in early June. The cool and humid summer was overtaken by ideal conditions in September to complete a good maturity of the grapes.
Harvest: We proceeded this year in two stages in order to make the most of the beautiful ripening conditions. The whites were harvested on September 11 and 12. Then, after a two-day break, we harvested the reds from September ...
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 ...
