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Wine Description
The Story
Pinots with fairly large berries, but not very productive, planted in 1953-54. An early-ripening selection which you should waste no time picking.
A fine plot of about one and a half acres, situated just north of the village of Aloxe. “Perrières” refers to “stones” and you will immediately understand why when you look at the soil which contains numerous round stones, often pink in colour. The soil is quite deep, but always full of stones. T...
Wine Information
If the estate had intended to stop here, you might have thought that this was a sort of crowning moment. What a harvest and what a vintage! The month of September was radiant up until the harvest, when rain arrived to disrupt the picking. It was essential not to bring in wet grapes and our nerves were severely tested. Apart from this important detail, the grapes were extraordinary in every way: very ripe, of consistent quality and very abundan...
Vintage 1999
1999 VINTAGE in Burgundy
The last harvest of the century
Generous yields and exceptional quality for Burgundy's 1999 harvest
Burgundy, France, November 1999 ? The 1999 Burgundy wine harvest was as generous in terms of yield as it was exceptional in terms of quality. According to the Burgundy Wine Bureau (BIVB), the climatic conditions permitted, as happens only rarely, the number of grape bunches per plant to exceed the average of the...
