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The DRC '99s were among the clear standouts of my November tastings: concentrated, highly aromatic and built to age. DRC essentially harvested in two stages: they began by picking thoroughly ripe grapes from their old vines on September 20, the first legal harvesting day for the grand crus, then went back through the vines again a few days later. According to Aubert de Villaine, the skins were healthy, tannins were completely mature, pHs were higher than those of the previous year, and the wines are likely to be bottled two or three months earlier than the '98s. It is a crop of wines, he says, that will always be seductive. The powerful, more perceptibly tannic '98s, in contrast, have evolved more slowly, says de Villaine. They have a very interesting future but need time, "like children whose very good intellectual potential can take a long time to reveal itself." It was the '99s that glittered on my recent visit.

From 1999 and 1998 Red Burgundies (Mar 2001) by Stephen Tanzer

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