Vintage 1978
The 1978 wine vintage in Burgundy was a breathtaking, monumental masterpiece, universally celebrated as one of the absolute greatest and most perfect Burgundy harvests of the 20th century. Following a miserably cold, wet spring that severely delayed vine flowering and drastically slashed overall crop yields, a miracle period of uninterrupted, blistering hot sunshine arrived in August and lasted straight through a flawless October harvest. This...