2021 Chambolle-Musigny Village

It’s always a pleasure to see Sylvie Poillot at Domaine de la Vougeraie. “We had a lot of frost in many areas and also the hailstorm three weeks after the frost, in Evocelles and then in La Justice,” she explains. “The summer was quite cool. Because of the frost, we had to wait to pick the harvest at the right time. We started the harvest on 17 September and finished in the Hautes Côtes on 1 October. There were days when there was no harvest, or we picked at two in the afternoon because we had to manage various levels of ripeness. We used less whole bunches, all the reds de-stemmed except for Charmes-Chambertin, Bonnes-Mares and Musigny. We blended some lieux-dits, such as Volnay and Pommard, to make up the volume. In Vosne-Romanée, we had just 14 twenty-kilo cases, hardly any, and this was blended into the Bourgogne Rouge because you cannot vinify that small volume. We also reduced the level of new oak with a maximum of 20% except for the Musigny, which is only two barrels. For the whites, we used 450-liter barrels instead of the 228-liter barrels, using less new oak that comes from the Citeaux forest.”