2001 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Musigny

Burgundy

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Pinot Noir

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2017 - 2031

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Enologist Francois Millet, who has an impressively broad vocabulary for describing the nature of the fruit in each new Burgundy vintage, characterizes his young 2002s as having "jelly fruits, the liquid part of the jam.This gives sweetness but not heaviness, which offers a very good combination with the vintage's very fresh acidity.It's a vintage of happiness, where all the elements go together well."The estate carried out a less severe green harvest in July than they did with the copious 2000 vintage.In 2001, too, notes Millet, "we needed even more than usual to do a green harvest, in order to get phenolic ripeness and balanced acidity.This is a rational, more Cartesian vintage that doesn't have any fantasy," he concludes. Today, the acids are going against the current of the wines."The 2002s had been racked for the second time in October.(Dreyfus-Ashby & Co., New York, NY; Ideal Wines, Medford, MA; Barrique Wines, Chicago, IL; Chambers & Chambers, San Francisco, CA; The Wine Company, Minneapolis, MN, Vintner Select, Cincinnati, OH)

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Enologist Francois Millet describes 2001 as a vintage with two faces: there is an enticing crushed fruit character to 2001," he told me in November, "but the slight shadow over the vintage is its bright natural acidity, which is what gives the fruit energy. This is the serious side of the vintage. The fresh acids are more important than the wines' tannic structures in 2001." According to Millet, the estate-wide yield was 35 hectoliters per hectare in 2001, the same as in '99 but higher than in '00. It was necessary to drop virtually half of the potential crop during a green harvest to arrive at this moderate production level. (Dreyfus-Ashby & Co., New York, NY; Ideal Wines, Medford, MA; Barrique Wines, Chicago, IL; Chambers & Chambers, San Francisco, CA; The Wine Company, Minneapolis, MN, Vintner Select, Cincinnati, OH)