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In Nuits-Saint-Georges, therefore, we had to withdraw
and blend our premiers crus: Le Clos de Thorey, Les Winter work
W
inter work
Damodes and Les Corvées Pagets were combined into
at the vines
a single Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Cru cuvée at the vines
with no climat stated.
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Our monopole Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru
Morgeot Clos de la Chapelle was very heavily affected.
However, the greatest impact was felt by the Grand
Cru Charmes-Chambertin, which caused issues for
winemaking as the winery equipment is not designed
to accommodate these small volumes. And that was
the challenge of this winemaking period: finding
the best way to respect the fermentation curves of
the 41 different cuvées, reduced to 37 as a result of
blending. This was a daily headache that the female
team of Sylvie and Camille resolved with great care
and attention (not to mention stress!) plus plenty of
adaptation. First was the sorting table, which was a
vibrating model for the first time ever for the white
grapes: this wise choice helped to remove a lot of the
omnipresent downy mildew material, forcing us to
perform even more sorting for the reds.
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Then the presses, where they had to tinker and use Shredded vine shoots, here among the rows of
pieces of wood to add height so that they could crush Côte de Beaune Les Pierres Blanches
the ‘cakes’, which would otherwise have been too thin!
The winery was also completely reorganised to suit
the new order. For example, for the first time ever
Musigny was not made in its dedicated vat number
31, but rather in the even smaller Vosne-Romanée vat!
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However, a few pleasant surprises kept us from losing
hope, such as Pommard Les Petits Noizons, a south-
facing vineyard that was left relatively unscathed and
offered 80% of the harvest as whole clusters.
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In terms of maturation, the second, malolactic
fermentation finished quickly for the reds but is still in
progress for the whites. The extensive 2023 has almost Pruning in this same plot
is now complete
entirely left the winery and these 345 barrels of 2024
will also soon be emptied to await the upcoming yet
still distant 2025 vintage, which we all hope will be
a successful one!