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Domaine Denis Bachelet

Bachelet picked during the sweet spot of the 2015 harvest, from September 5 to 10. Grape sugars were moderate (his Bourgogne was the only vineyard to reach 13%) and Bachelet chaptalized lightly to prolong the fermentations. “We would have needed more rain to get higher degrees of potential alcohol,” he told me, noting that his vines on sandy soil in Gevrey-Chambertin La Justice (which go into his Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes bottling) were the most affected by drought stress in 2015. As is his usual habit, Bachelet totally destemmed his fruit. “I never follow fashion,” he explained. The wines had been racked in early June after the malolactic fermentations but were still in barrel in December.

Bachelet believes that the ‘15s will age for a long time but that they will be accessible earlier than the 2005s, which had more astringent tannins. While they were a bit less fleshy than I would have expected from this very rich vintage, Bachelet's distinctly elegant '15s boast electric energy and finish gripping but not dry.

From The 2015 Red Burgundies: You Are So Going To Want Them (Jan 2017) by Stephen Tanzer

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2015 Bourgogne Pinot Noir

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