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Domaine Guy Roulot

Roulot told me he was even more pessimistic a couple weeks before the 2004 harvest than he had been in 2002. "The yields were very high, as in 1999-55 hectoliters per hectare on average-and there was a big disparity in ripeness levels from one vineyard to another," he said. "There was a lot of oidium, and the veraison had been very late." He ended up taking a full two weeks to pick, compared to just six days in 2003. One reason the harvest took so much time was that Roulot did two passes through the vines where there was oidium in order to eliminate the affected grapes. He then did a full 24-hour decanting of the must. Although he kept a lot of the lees, he did very little batonnage. Incidentally, Roulot was one of several vignerons who told me that extended barrel aging enabled the 2003s to regain some of the soil character that initially seemed to have been burned out by the scorching sun. "The wines began showing more minerality from contact with their lees in early '04." Roulot racked them for the first time in August, then kept the wines on their fine lees in tank for another six months before bottling them. He advises drinking the 2003s within three to five years, but believes that the minerally wines like Tessons, Tillets and Perrieres may surprise with their longevity.

From 2004 and 2003 White Burgundies (Sep 2005) by Stephen Tanzer

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2003 Meursault Les Luchets

Release Price: $80

Color: White

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