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2013 Echézeaux Grand Cru

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Flagey Echézeaux

Burgundy

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Pinot Noir

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Rouget, who normally ferments his wines at cool temperature, was advised by his enologist to heat the cuverie in 2013. But he was only able to get the fermentation temperature up to 25 degrees C in 2013 owing mostly to the small volumes of wine, compared to 28 degrees in 2014. His '13s have turned out pure, delineated and long and Rouget's Cros Parantoux should be long-lived.

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Rouget describes 2013 as a vintage of terroir, with great purity of flavor and low alcohol (starting at 11%). He began picking on October 1, eliminating a good quantity of rotten grapes but relatively few green ones; there was actually a higher percentage of underripe fruit in 2012, he told me. Rouget describes the 2012s as lively and the 2013s as slightly more tannic: "frank, direct and long." The 2012s have the acidity and balance to age, he went on, but the 2013s may be for drinking even later. "The 2013s are more saline and long than the 2012s," he said. "There's a lot of taste in retrofaction." Rouget cut the percentage of new oak for his village wines from a previous 50% to 30% in 2013 "in order to preserve freshness and terroir." He routinely destems all of his fruit.