2010 Côte de Nuits-Villages

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Côtes De Nuits Villages

Burgundy

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Pinot Noir

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Lalou Bize-Leroy has two fabulous Grand Cru reds sitting in her tiny cellar at Domaine D'Auvenay, on the hills outside Meursault. Bize-Leroy recently added to her holdings at D'Auvenay with purchases of small parcels in Bâtard-Montrachet and the Puligny villages vineyard Les Enseignères. Both parcels are currently farmed conventionally and will be converted to biodynamic farming, which is of course standard practice at the domaine.

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Denis Bachelet describes his 2010s as "a bit in the style of 2006 and 2001." What does the vintage lack, I asked him. "I don't think like that," he responded. "It's what nature gave us." Bachelet told me he eliminated some underripe grapes at harvest-time but did not have any problems with rot. He noted that his 2008s had higher acidity than the 2010s, with significantly more malic acidity in particular. "The two vintages are not comparable," he said. Bachelet does two punchdowns daily until the end of the fermentations, then much less in the way of pigeage in order to avoid extracting hard tannins. (A Becky Wasserman selection; importers include Martin Scott Wines, Ltd., Lake Success, NY and Wines Unlimited, New Orleans, LA)