2000 Chambolle-Musigny Village

My visit to Domaine Dujac this fall came just a few days after vineyard manager Christophe Morin was tragically killed in a motor accident on the route nationale between Gevrey-Chambertin and Dijon. Jacques Seysses, who had for years credited Morin viticultural techniques for much of his domain's success, was still in a state of shock but was good enough to keep our appointment. Seysses described 2000 as having produced a large crop of patchy quality, as ripe as the fruit of the preceding three years but with modest structure. The wines show a strong red fruit quality, he noted, adding that Morin dropped nearly two-thirds of the crop in order to cut yields to the 40 to 45 hectoliters-per-hectare range. I also tasted three negociant village wines (from Gevrey, Morey and Chambolle), and particularly liked the Chambolle, which was more typical of its village than the Dujac bottling, which is distinctly a Morey-side version of Chambolle.