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2018 Chambertin Grand Cru

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Chambertin

Burgundy

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Pinot Noir

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Jean-Louis Trapet has entered a purple patch in recent years, his wines better than ever. I called in at his winery, located in Gevrey on the RN74, where I tasted through his 2018s. He is a soft-spoken, thoughtful vigneron, a proponent and practitioner of biodynamic viticulture for many years. He provided some useful data on the growing season. “The average temperature was 2°C higher between April and September whilst there was just 290mm of rain instead of the normal 40mm," he told me. "There was also more sunlight hours: 1,580 hours in the same period instead of 1,300 hours. I harvested within five days this year, very quickly, beginning on 2 September. It is unbelievable that we are harvesting earlier and earlier. I was looking for optimal ripeness and it was incredible [to find] that the potential alcohol increased by two degrees within a week. The alcohol levels are around 13.0% and 13.5%." These were at times breathtaking expressions of the vintage, at times among the very best that I encountered within the Côte d’Or.