2007 Mazy-Chambertin Grand Cru

Eric Rousseau made it clear that he considers 2007 superior to 2006. "The wines have more material and density and beautiful purity of fruit, not to mention excellent balance," he told me. He noted that he normally finds his Lavaux Saint-Jacques and Mazy-Chambertin to be the disappointing wines in the context of his cellar, but not in 2007. Crop levels ranged between 30 and 38 hectoliters per hectare in 2007 and 2006 (Rousseau typically leaves seven bunches per vine when he green-harvests), and he tossed out roughly the same percentage of rotten grapes in both years, eliminating this fruit in the vineyard rather than on a sorting table. The malos took place during the first three months of 2008 and the wines were racked in September.