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Domaine Jean Tardy

Week one. Day one. Visit one. I turned up 30 minutes early, catching Guillaume Tardy by surprise, but his 2018s and 2019s were waiting for me. He had only just finished picking his 2020s, pleased that it had yielded the same quantity as 2019. “For the 2019s we picked the grapes from 16 September. The harvest conditions were great, not too hot, around 28°C. It was very enjoyable. We had to wait longer to get the phenolic maturity so the sugar is a little higher than in 2018. But everything is fresher because the ripeness took longer to come than the previous year. In 2019, there were just a couple of spikes in temperature whereas in 2018 there was a longer period of warmth. The sugar levels were 13.8° to 14.2°, which is better than some other growers that picked of 15°. The pH is around 3.4 with fine tannins, total acidity around 3.5 to 3.8g/l. The fermentation was a bit crazy, the yeast had a lot of nutrients, so when the fermentation began, the density of the must-meter dropped from 1.070 of sugar to 1.010 in one night. I used temperature management to calm down the yeasts but you could see, it was like a volcano in the vats after pumping!”

I tasted the 2019s from one-year old barrels that had not been racked, as Tardy prefers to let wines rest on their lees. He commented that he appreciates the light bitterness in his wines when they are young, engendering a more classical style. The wines stay true to Tardy’s style, darker fruit and denser in structure than some of his peers. They appeal to those who appreciate their Pinot with more body, although they are not excessive. I was particularly taken with the 2019 Nuits Saint-Georges Au Bas de Combe this year, full of opulence and purity. The 2018s had been bottled in February and Tardy opined that they had lost some of their muscularity that had put him off last year. “They have calmed down,” he remarked. It was another Nuits Saint-Georges that caught my attention, but this time Tardy’s Aux Argillats. Finally, readers should note that next year there will be a new addition to the range after Tardy has a joint fermage with a friend on 1.3 hectares of Côtes de Nuits-Villages in Comblanchien.

From La Lumière Noire: 2019 Burgundy - Côte de Nuits (Dec 2020) by Neal Martin

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2019 Rouge Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Nuits Cuvée Maelie

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2019 Rouge Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Nuits Cuvée Maelie

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