2008 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru

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I tasted the following wines with Charles Van Canneyt, Alain Hudelot's grandson. Van Canneyt showed me a few 2008s before moving into The 2009s. The estate did some chaptalization in 2008. Based on the selection of wines I tasted, that may have robbed some of The 2008s of their vintage character. Vintage 2009 seems to have played more to the estate's strengths. The estate used 50% new oak for the grand crus and 30% for the 1ers.

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Also recommended: 2008 Vosne-Romanee (86+?).

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This estate picked a few grapes as early as September 23 in 2008, then started for real in Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Murgers on the 25th, bringing in fruit with 13.7% potential alcohol. Most of the rest of the wines were chaptalized a bit because the yeasts were inefficient, noted Alain Hudelot's grandson, Charles van Canneyt, who is taking over the direction of this domain (Vincent Munier remains in charge of winemaking). Punchdowns were kept to a minimum due to the limited phenolic maturity of the vintage (the estate eliminated "much more underripe than rotten grapes," in the vines and on a sorting table). Most of the 2008s had been racked in July, following what van Canneyt described as heterogeneous malos. Prior to the 2008 harvest, Hudelot-Noellat purchased a new destemmer that does not crush the grapes, and van Canneyt believes that this will enable the estate to keep more fruit in their wines-not that this has often been a problem here in the past.

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