2013 Vosne-Romanée Vieilles Vignes

Cecile Tremblay told me that the cover crop in her organically farmed vineyards really helped in the "very complicated" 2013 growing season, which required 11 treatments against oidium and mildew and three "poudrages" (treatments with sulfur powder). Even after the rainy weather of October 4 and 5 (Tremblay started harvesting on October 2), little triage was necessary, she added. Tremblay likes the balance of the 2013s; she describes the wines as combining the freshness of the 2008s with the equilibrium of the 2010s. She used a lot of whole clusters from the healthiest vines and then did virtually no extraction: one remontage per day but no pumpovers. The wines had not yet been racked in early November but the barrels had been moved upstairs a month before my visit. Tremblay planned to rack the wines in March, by gravity.