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The laconic Laurent Tribut rarely gets overly animated about the new vintage, and his capsule descriptions of each new year are particularly forthright. In 2009, he told me, "the grapes were ripe and clean. The only fault of the year is a lack of acidity. But the wines are rich and fat." In fact, he added, some of the 2009s were a bit heavy before the malos, but their time in barriques is bringing out their inherent minerality and firming up the wines. He went on to say that 2008 is "richer than 2007 but in the same spirit," which strikes me as a particularly felicitous combination for these normally steely mineral- and citrus-driven wines. The acid levels in Tribut's 2008s are in the solid 4.5 to 4.8 grams-per-liter range, and he reported pHs as low as 3.05. Tribut starts all of his wines in cuve, then eventually moves them into older barriques. Most of the wine is bottled late, during the second spring. (Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, AL)

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"More vivid than 2007," said Laurent Tribut about his set of 2008s. "The wines show a lot of force on the end-like the '96s, but the '96s were higher in acidity." Tribut did not chaptalize in 2008, after having raised the alcohol levels of his '07s by about 0.3%. The malos ended late, in March, and the wines had been in barrels for about two months when I stopped by to visit. Tribut told me that his son recently bought some village Chablis land. With three of his four kids now working with him at this small domain, Tribut added, he needs to enlarge his holdings. But although bulk prices have plunged since last fall, very little vineyard land is on the market yet. (Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, AL)

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