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  • Country ranking ?

    378
  • Producer ranking ?

    7
  • Decanting time

    -
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Salads

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The Story

Thus the wines can better express the qualities and particularities of their terroirs. The soils in Puligny-Montrachet are calcareous clay with different percentages of clay and limestone, according to the locations. The soil also includes trace elements: traces of iron, magnesium, boron that assure nourishment to the roots that make a difference to each vine.

In the cellars, the same philosophy of respect presides over the entire vinificat...

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Vintage 2016

2016 RED BURGUNDY VINTAGE REPORT

The 2016 harvest was, of course, later for Pinot Noir in the Côtes de Nuits, and some climats had different productions depending on how they weathered the frost of April 26th. In this report I will talk about each of the producers’ allocations to illustrate the variations between the totals from the 2015 and 2016 vintages. I will also seek to give you an idea of the style of the 2016 red wines versus those ...

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A gorgeous nose of sweet spices, flowers and ripe stone fruits which opens up to an intense Bienvenues with intensity but without weight. Focused, intense with layers of hazelnuts and almonds that comes through in the finish. Only 7 barrels were made in 2016 when normally 22 barrels are produced from this 1 ha vineyard.

  • 96p

Yields were super low at around 10 hectolitres per hectare in 2016, but what survived the frost is delicious, showing impressive focus, line and palate length. There's plenty of fruit weight here, with nectarine and tangerine to the fore, underpinned by chalky acidity. 2021-30

  • 97p
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Origin

Beaune, Burgundy

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