In bond 6x75cl En Primeur
"Allen Meadows, Burghound 91-93/100 'Sweet Spot' Outstanding
Note: from old vines in Murgers and Vignerondes
A very ripe nose is presently a bit flat and lacks the same freshness as the best in the range. By contrast there is excellent verve and freshness on the dense, serious and sappy medium weight plus flavors that brim with both minerality and dry extract, all wrapped in a beautifully persistent and complex finale. Given the freshness on the palate, I'm guessing the nose will eventually freshness as well and my predicted ranged offers the benefit of the doubt. Drink: 2032+ Tasted Jan 10, 2022
Michel Gros' son Pierre is taking over the domaine bit by bit and while Michel did stop in to say hello, it's clear that the reins are passing to a new generation. Pierre briefly noted that "we picked from the 29th of August and brought in super-clean fruit that was ripe, both in terms of potential alcohols but also phenolically. Yields were variable from one terroir to another but on average, they were down 40%, which is even more than the roughly 25% we obtained in 2019. This meant that our volumes came in between 25 to 30 hl/ha and remember we have a lot of Hautes Côtes. We actually had a normal number of berries but there was just no juice in them. This made for very dense musts and so it was necessary to extract carefully. To help with this, we shortened the cuvaison to just 10 days on average. Potential alcohols were quite good at between 13.5 and 14% so nothing was chaptalized.""
