2002 Gevrey-Chambertin Motrot

I love 2002:it's a vintage that pleases me very much,' was Mortet's quick take on his newest crop of wines. A great spring with an early flowering, a very dry summer with no hydric stress, a so-so August with only about ten really good days, then a north wind with brilliant sunshine after September 10 brought my highest sugars ever.'Like Bernard Dugat, Mortet received special permission to start picking on September 16, before the ban de vendange The fruit was ripe, period,' Mortet explained. And I don't like surmaturite Mortet went on to say that he was not concerned about any possible fall in acidity as the harvest progressed.In fact, he added, the 50 millimeters of rain that fell over most of the appellation on September 19 had little effect on his grapes (he had pulled leaves at the beginning of the month in most of his vines younger than 45 years old and thus had well-aerated clusters), and the acidity levels of some of his wines are as high as those of 1996.(Martine's Wines, Novato CA