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2008 Nuits Saint-Georges Chaboeufs 1er Cru

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Nuits Saint Georges

Burgundy

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Pinot Noir

Vintages
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The sun stayed out after September 10, noted Alain Meunier, but the temperatures remained cool through the end of the 2008 harvest. Concentration came via evaporation, not photosynthesis. "The grapes had a lot of skin and pulp but very little juice," he explained. "There was a concentration of tannins, color and acidity, but still some greenness in the skins and seeds. Between the underripe and rotten grapes, we threw out about 30% of our crop." Meunier told me the pHs were in the moderate 3.4 to 3.45 range, but that in the '08s the "acidity supports the pinot fruit; it's not hard." He did one pigeage per day "at most" and a shorter-than-usual fermentation. The malos finished here by July and the wines had been sulfited but not yet racked by the time of my November visit. Meunier compares his 2007s to his 2000s and 1992s.