2012 Côte de Nuits-Villages

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Côtes De Nuits Villages

Burgundy

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Pinot Noir

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2017 - 2023

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Denis Bachelet advises drinking his 2012s before his '13s and indeed I found these wines much more approachable in November. As in a majority of cellars these days, I tasted the finished wines from 375-ml. bottles and I had the feeling that my samples here were a bit advanced. So I would suspect the 750s in the marketplace to be fresher.

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Denis Bachelet's small cellar is stark for how empty the barrel room is. In 2012 yields are down from 30% to more than 50% for the Charmes. According to Bachelet mildew in May and bad weather during the flowering were the main culprits. Flowering was drawn out over an entire month, whereas in a normal year everything is said and done in about a week. If that wasn't bad enough, the oldest vines were affected the most by the dismal weather. As is the custom here, the wines were racked before the malos, something that is done largely because of space considerations. Even though the malos were quite late the 2012s showed beautifully. This is a gorgeous set of wines from Denis Bachelet. The heartbreak is likely to be in trying to find them.

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Bachelet describes 2012 as a classic year, whereas the 2011s were more exuberant from barrel ("they now remind me of the agreeable 2002s").He carries out a one-week cold maceration but presses at dryness, eschewing post-fermentation maceration because he doesn't want to extract dry tannins.He racked the wines in March of 2013, before the malos, then heated his cellar to 15 or 16 degrees C get the secondary fermentations to finish in April.The wines were still on their fine lees in barrel in November, and Bachelet planned to bottle them in February or March. (A Becky Wasserman selection; importers include Martin-Scott Wines, Ltd, www.martinscottwines.com and Wines Unlimited, www.winesunlimited.com)