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2024 WINEMAKING AND AGEING

A small vintage with big challenges!

The magnificent grapes from the Beaune la Montagne Saint Désiré plot, harvested on 24 September 2024, are the exception!
Sunny, scorching 2023 did not ♦ whites, such as Beaune La Montagne
prepare us for an about-turn like This gloomy weather and lack of Saint Désiré, produced 46 hl/ha,
this! 2024 was the absolute opposite sunshine slowed ripening and delayed and we similarly saw highly pleasing
on every level. The cold and above the harvest to 19 September. We output in Bâtard-Montrachet and
all the rain had a huge impact on noticed a real disparity between our Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru
the growth cycle: coulure during plots: some in Pommard or in the Champ Gain.
flowering, then rapid development lower parts of Gevrey-Chambertin ♦
of downy mildew due to these were reasonably healthy and even These were exceptions, as yields
constant showers, which even 17 abundant, whilst others – especially were down 70% compared with
organic treatments were unable younger vines – were more heavily a normal year! The rare grapes
to eradicate! The lightning-speed affected by uneven shoot growth produced small-scale wines that
harvest was a race against the clock within a single plot. Côte de Nuits are currently being aged for six
over the course of ten days, rather was worse off than Côte de Beaune, months.
than the previous year’s month-long as Pinot Noir is less resistant than ♦
marathon. Chardonnay. This means that our