2002 Chambolle-Musigny Vieilles Vignes

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Chambolle Musigny

Burgundy

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Pinot Noir

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2016 - 2022

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Virgile Lignier bought a new vibrating triage table in time for the 2002 vintage, and he used it to eliminate the larger and less ripe grapes.He is now also able to move the fruit into cuve without pumping it.In 2002 he carried out a six-day cold maceration at 50oF, and did one punchdown and one pumpover per day during the fermentation.The material was riper in 2002 than in 2001, Lignier told me:the typical wine had potential alcohol of 12.5% and was chaptalized a half-degree.Lignier made 33 hectoliters per hectare in 2002, compared to 42 in 2001, but does not find a big difference in quality between the two vintages.The 2002s, he told me, should be medium-term agers.I liked the earlier vintage for its precision, but some tasters will prefer 2002 for its superripe, fleshier fruit.The 2001 crus were bottled on the late side, in May of 2003, the village wines three months earlier.At the time of my tasting, Lignier was leaning toward bottling all his 2002s in February.