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Wine Description
The Story
The Chambertin Grand Cru lies between the village of Morey-Saint-Denis to the south and Gevrey-Chambertin to the north, mid-slope, but at the upper limit for winegrowing on this hillside. The slope is steep (more than 5%). The plot ranges in altitude from 273 to 302 meters. The lieu-dit faces east-southeast.
The soil changes from east to west. In the eastern part, the reddish-brown soil is about 40 to 50 cm thick, with many blunt crinoidal limestone fragments (calcaire à Entroques). In the central part, the soil is less stony, with small oyster shells in patches. In the western part, the soil contains angular-to-blunt Premeaux limestone fragments.
Two types of substratum underlie the Clos de Bèze. In the eastern part, ocher limestone rich in debris from marine organisms (calcaire à Entroques) crops out in places, because a former quarry once existed in this Grand Cru. In the western part, fine-grained light-colored Premeaux limestone, containing flint-like chert nodules (chailles), crops out in beds tens of centimeters thick, in the slight rise that marks the hillside, indicating an underlying fault in this Grand Cru.
Vintage 2020
In Burgundy, the harvest is over for most farmers. It has been a year with a lot of heat both in July and August. A huge problem this year has been leaf-thinning and canopy management. Those who have not paid enough attention to the leaf-thinning experienced problems with sunburned grapes.
In Cote d’Or, it is especially the heat that has been tricky this season. First and foremost, some grapes have been burned by the sun resulting in raisins that the critical winegrower will not want in the cellar. Secondly, too much sun for a longer period caused stress among the vines and thus shut down the ripening. The result is grapes that look ripe but are still not ripe in taste. On the other hand, the most critical winegrowers report of really good grapes in the winery. Producers up north in Chablis are also reporting a satisfactory harvest.
