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1999 Savigny-lès-Beaune La Dominode 1er Cru

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Savigny Lès Beaune

Burgundy

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Pinot Noir

Vintages
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Cellarmaster Philippe Brun describes the domain 2000s as aromatic, supple wines, to drink early - a very good restaurant vintage. The fragile fruit, picked largely under very warm conditions, generally needed some acidification. In comparison, he noted, the 2001 harvest brought thicker skins, higher acidity and more concentration. Brun and Bruno Clair both consider 1999 to be their best vintage since 1990. (Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, AL)

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This is always a tricky cellar for barrel tasting, as the wines tend to show a firm tannic side early on and there relatively little sweetening influence of new oak. That said, I found a few of the lesser wines a bit wimpy and dilute, and lacking in flavor authority ("it was a very big harvest in Marsannay," Clair admits), but at the level of the estate's top crus these are scented, pure wines of subtlety and class. The '99s had been racked for the first time about two weeks prior to my visit. (Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, AL)