2007 Chambolle-Musigny Vieilles Vignes
France
Chambolle Musigny
Burgundy
Red
Pinot Noir
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The new vintage brought "purity of fruit, more vivid wines than 2007," noted Virgile Lignier, who harvested most of his crop during the first half of October. He did a gentle extraction without much pigeage, to avoid getting hard tannins, and told me he likes to vinify with uncrushed small berries. He noted that he de-acidified a few of his '08s after the malos because he thought they had a bitterness that dried their finishes. I suspect he's far from the only grower I visited to have used this technique.
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Virgile Lignier started harvesting on September 2 in 2007, but waited "a long time" to pick his Cheneverys. Potential alcohol levels were in the 12.3% to 13.2% range, with some wines lightly chaptalized. Lignier believes the 2007s have more depth than the 2006s, perhaps a result of the low crop level, and that their tannins are more thoroughly integrated. But he also told me he did a gentler extraction in 2007 because the tannins were less ripe than those of the previous year. Lignier feels that the fruit component is finer and more precise than in 2006, in part because he vinified a number of his cuvees with 30% to 35% whole clusters (the fruit in 2006 was entirely destemmed). The malos here finished as late as September, and all the 2007s were racked prior to the 2008 harvest.
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