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Domaine J-F Mugnier

Freddy Mugnier started picking on September 22 in 2008, with what he described as good sugar levels in the 12% to 12.5% range. He eliminated more rotten than green grapes and emphasized that "ripeness is no longer a problem in Burgundy." When he started in 1985, he explained, "a great vintage was when we could pick grapes at 11.5%, and even 11% was okay." Phenolic ripeness, of course, is another issue, and Mugnier told me he's more concerned with phenolic ripeness in dry years, when the juice can be riper than the skins. That's why he waited to harvest in 2009 and got very high sugars. "I would have been happy if I could have done a negative chaptalization in 2009," he told me. Incidentally, when I mentioned that many growers get higher sugars today partly due to lower crop levels, Mugnier noted that his own yields are not lower today than previously. In fact, he said, they were lower in the early '90s, when he used different farming methods.

From 2008 and 2007 Red Burgundies (Mar 2010) by Stephen Tanzer

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