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2008 Richebourg Grand Cru

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Richebourg

Burgundy

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Pinot Noir

Vintages
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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.