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    5
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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Vintage 2001

2001 VINTAGE in Burgundy

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Growing season and weather conditions

The winter, during which the vines lay dormant, was a mild one.

The first signs of bud-burst came early but wintry conditions in April accompanied by frosts in the most exposed vineyards slowed down the start of the growing season.

Spring, from May onwards, was marked by periods of fine sunny weather.

The first flowers appeared, precociously, at the beginning of June, but the process was then slowed by a recurrence of low temperatures. Flowering was thus spread out over a period of some two weeks and the resulting unevenness in the progress of maturation persisted until harvest-time.

The natural weight of the crop burden led many growers to resort to green thinning ("vendanges en vert") - cutting out superfluous grape bunches at an early stage to ensure a harvest lower in volume but higher in quality.

Maturation and harvest
July was cool and rainy. Summer only really arrived in August with sometimes scorching heat and high levels of recorded sunshine. Violent rain- and hail-storms caused significant damage to the vines in some localities.

Maturation proceeded under favourable circumstances and the physical condition of the grapes remained good.

A slight drop in temperature at the beginning of September together with some light rain meant that in choosing the right moment to begin picking, growers needed to be alert and exercise great judgement (given uneven maturation and changeable weather conditions), and to make the best use of dry and sunny periods.

The need to wait, in some cases, for the moment of optimum ripeness meant that the harvest period was prolonged. Maturity was variable with sugar levels ranging from moderate to very good, good levels of acidity, and variable polyphenol levels in the red wines.

Estimated yield totals 1.5 million hectolitres, a slightly lower volume than the 2000 and 2001 harvests.

Vinification and character of the wines
Vinification of the white wines proceded in a lesisurely manner and without incident. The red wines demanded more attention in order to extract the maximum potential from their colouring matter and tannins.

As of mid-November, the white wines are fine and straightforward, well-balanced with good concentration and well-developed fruit backed by firm acidity.

The reds are vividly and intensely coloured. They have a well-defined structure thanks to firm tannins and a good level of acidity. They are meaty, with agreeable and expressive fruit.

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Gorgeously intense, refined and very fresh elegant red and black fruit trimmed in damp, fresh earth aromas lead to big though not robust flavors that display knock out depth of extract, excellent richness and dazzling length. Quite backward and tight and this will require the better part of a decade to be at its best. Highly recommended and for what the Pavelot wines usually sell for, an indisputable bargain.

Jean-Marc Pavelot told me that 2002 "was slightly less generous in terms of yields but a good deal more so in terms of sugar as everything came in between 12.5 and 13%. As a consequence, we chaptalized only to prolong the fermentations, not to add alcohol. The malos were quite long, which I always view as a very positive sign as it keeps the wines fresh and permits them to feed off of their fine lees. In terms of the wines, '02 is a very homogenous vintage with very good to excellent quality across the board. The wines are quite ripe, certainly riper than the '01s and they should reward cellaring over the medium term but I don't think it's a vintage to hold for 20 years". Pavelot said that most of the wines were bottled between October and December with the remaining two to go into bottle in March. As the scores suggest, the Pavelot '02s are excellent wines fashioned in a very ripe pinot style though I left ever so slightly disappointed as I expected a bit more, perhaps because I consider him to be one of the two reference standards in Savigny and whose wines are worth a serious look each and every vintage. To be sure, there is very good quality here but the '02s are not necessarily better than the excellent Pavelot '01s. I did have the chance to retaste several '01s and they performed almost identically as to how they showed

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