Ce domaine avant-gardiste du sud de la Loire, près de Poitiers, avec lequel nous travaillons depuis plus de 25 ans, produit des vins de cépage modernes et biologiques. Ce délicieux pinot noir ouvert présente une robe pourpre sombre et brillante. Au nez, il offre des arômes appétissants et plutôt savoureux de Pata Negra et de poivre, qui évoluent vers des notes plus florales de violette et de cerise. En bouche, le vin est doux et juteux, avec des saveurs de mûres et de prunes. Doux et rond, mais avec un intéressant mordant tannique vers la fin, c'est un beau vin avec une longue finale et une résonance attrayante.
This question has been on my mind a great deal recently. Last year we saw Burgundy wine prices skyrocket and the trend has continued for much of this year. This year we watched as the best wines of the highly touted 2022 Bordeaux, wines such as Petrus, Lafite, Vieux Chateau Certan and Figeac sold for upwards of 20% above the previous year’s releases. Quite frankly, we wondered whether we would be able to sell some of these wines. Much to our surprise, they were the first wines to sell out; there is a sense of luxury in being able to afford the world’s best wines, which are often made in small quantities that make them rarer.
2022 is a miraculous vintage. It was the year that the vine showed its resilience to climate change and adapted to both the heat and the drought that were present throughout the summer, to make elegant, fresh, fruity wines that often showed the best of the terroirs in which they grow. We have never seen anything like it!
I want to take you back to the end of August. We were nervous. Talk around us was that yet again, harvesting in Bordeaux was beginning at the earliest dates ever recorded. We walked around our vineyards nervously checking the state of the vine leaves; noticing the cracks in the parched soil; consulting again and again all the different weather apps we had on our telephones. Absolutely not necessary to check our rain monitors; they had been dry for months.