2013 Vosne-Romanée Les Barreaux

Anne Gros told me that she was "uncomfortable" with the lateness of the harvest in 2013 and did a Draconian selection, but now she likes "the touch" of the tannins. The wines were very irregular in their development and in their malolactic fermentations, but Gros did her normal December (2014) bottling. She believes that the wines have less tannins and less material in general than the 2014s and will probably be best suite for earlier drinking. Gros did not make a Chambolle villages due to losses to wild boars and rot. According to her daughter Julie, "we threw out half of the fruit and the rest was not at village quality, so we declassified it into our Bourgogne."