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Domaine Guillot-Broux

With his brothers Patrice and Ludovic, Emmanuel Guillot recently purchased a new building to handle winemaking for the family estate, which will enable him to use larger tanks in his old facility to hold wines for several extra months prior to bottling them, beginning with the ‘16s. But he bottled his 2015 whites in July owing to the hot vintage and its low acidity. Guillot described 2015 as “a totally atypical vintage, but better than 2009 and 2003 in terms of freshness and balance." His Combettes bottling weighs in at 14.2% alcohol but the rest of his ‘15s are in the more moderate 13.2% to 13.8% range. And yields were low due to blocked maturity from the heat: 32 hectoliters per hectare for Chardonnay but just 28 for his Pinot Noir and Gamay vines. Guillot told me that he does not check pHs levels. “I would only panic,” he explained. Guillot advises drinking the ‘15s and waiting for the ‘14s, which he believes will be fantastic in 12 to 14 years. The top wines here are done entirely in oak, 10% new.

Although I did not really taste red wines in the Mâconnais, Guillot’s bottlings from Gamay and Pinot offer exciting potential in 2015. In fact, they have whet my appetite for my tasting of hundreds of Côte d’Or 2015s later this fall.

Incidentally, Guillot was one of a few producers in the northern Mâconnais who noted that this region largely escaped France’s awful spring weather intact. “There was no hail or frost here, so the vines are carrying a full crop,” he told me. “After the miserable spring, the rains stopped just in time. And there was even a blockage of maturity in some of our vines after the heat and dry weather arrived in August.”

From Mâconnais: The Headspinning 2015s and The Classic 2014s (Oct 2016) by Stephen Tanzer

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2015 Mâcon-Cruzille Les Genievrières

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