2001 La Romanee

According to winemaker Philippe Prost, Burgundy's 2001 vintage is particularly difficult from Volnay south, and Bouchard will offer only two Volnay crus For example, the Taillepieds and the Fremiets, which could not completely avoid a taint of hail, were declassified into a Volnay villages Bouchard carried out longer vinifications with gentler extraction in 2001 (with the exception of the Vosne-Romanee Reignots and La Romanee, which received more frequent punchdowns), with the objective of retaining freshness while avoiding hard tannins. After the first racking in the late spring of 2002, numerous 2001s went into one- or two-year-old barrels. The top Bouchard 2001s will once again be stellar. In recent weeks, a number of the house's 2000s, including a couple from the Cote de Beaune, showed more depth and definition of flavor than did their peers in a series of blind flights, no doubt due in part to the house's practice of harvesting on the early side to retain acidity.