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Domaine Humbert Frères

Emmanuel Humbert makes precise, highly aromatic wines from fruit harvested early. “Pinot for me needs good acidity,” he explained in December, adding that he’d much rather retain freshness and lightly chaptalize his musts than harvest too late. He picked from September 3 through 10 in 2015, with grape sugars ranging from 11.5% to 12.5% and yields of only 30 to 35 hectoliters per hectare, down 30% from a normal year. Humbert told me he’s doing fewer and fewer pigeages in order to avoid getting dry tannins and he continues to rack his wines in the spring, before the malolactic fermentations finish, “to protect freshness.”

Humbert vinified with a higher percentage of stems than usual in 2015 “to gain in femininity." He told me that 2015 is the best vintage he’s made to date but noted that 2016 may be even better due to higher acidity. He also compared 2015 to 2005 but admitted that he harvested too early in ’05 and also over-extracted, getting drier tannins as a result.

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

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2015 Fixin Vieilles Vignes

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