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Domaine des Epéneaux/Comte Armand

Winemaker Paul Zinetti compares his young 2015s to the estate’s 2010s in terms of “their finesse, the touch of their tannins and their accessibility, not to mention their salinity and easy digestibility.” But he added that the ‘15s are denser than the ‘10s. The estate harvested from September 3 through 11 and with the exception of their vines in Auxey-Duresses, yields were still very low owing to the lingering impact of the hailstorm in 2014. The Clos des Epéneaux produced just 15 hectoliters per hectare in 2015. Grape sugars were mostly in the high 13.2% to 13.6% range, but the Auxey-Duresses came in at 14%.

“The grapes were beautiful and their thick skins need gentle extraction,” noted Zinetti, who did a total of just two pigeages for the Clos des Epéneaux, relying instead on a remontage and a délestage each day. The estate’s destemmer, he told me, retains a high percentage of whole berries. These 2015s display lovely balance and serious stuffing, as well as finishes that stimulate the salivary glands.

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

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2015 Auxey-Duresses

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