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Richebourg 2013 75cl

AOC Grand Cru | Côte de Nuits | Burgund | Frankreich
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98 Robert Parker
The 2013 Richebourg Grand Cru has a more floral bouquet compared to the Romanee Saint Vivant, at least at the moment. It is very complex: black fruit rather than red, with hints of wilted violet petals and damp moss aromas developing in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with enormous structure and dimension. It is extremely complex, to the point where I found it difficult to find the right words! It just has a sense of authority and an incredible length that gently grips the mouth and stays there for two minutes after this ineffable wine has departed. Magnificent.  Lalou was looking positively “chipper” when I visited her cellars on a Friday morning. Last time she has been suffering after a cold but today she was “en forme," chatty and energetic as ever. I have a theory that she is the “Benjamin Button” of Vosne: more and more youthful as she gets older…or is that younger? As usual, I spent a few moments gazing at the plethora of photographs adorning the walls of various luminaries with Lalou before descending in the elevator with her two dogs, one of whom was almost covered in Musigny 2013 when it leaped in front of the spit bucket. “The 2013 was a difficult season,” she told me, “but autumn saved the vintage. I like the 2013, because each terroir is very expressive. It’s another thing compared to 2012…just different. We started the picking on 25 September in Nuits Saint Georges and finished on 3 October. The yields were 16-hl/ha on average in 2013, which is more than 9 hectoliter per hectare in 2012 and 14 hectoliter per hectare in 2014.” I tasted through the entire range of reds from Leroy save for the Corton-Charlemagne having been bottled three weeks prior to my visit. Indeed, I got the impression that Lalou was pleased with how the wines were in barrel and heeding her policy of bottling relatively earlier than her peers, entertained the possibility of bottling the reds in December. As you would expect, such low yields and meticulous attention to the vineyard has created some exceptionally fine 2013s. The notes hopefully speak for themselves, but would point attention towards a really quite riveting Latricières-Chambertin 2013, which in the past I have felt was not one of Lalou’s strongest wines. However on this occasion…wow…it has the audacity to shade the Chambertin. Also, I enjoyed the brightness and transparency exuded by the Savigny-lès-Beaune les Nanbartons and the undeniable complexity of her Musigny, alas just two barrels like last year, although if rarity turns you on, try and find her hail-affected Volnay Santenots that was reduced to a single barrel. 
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Domaine Leroy
Als es zusehends schwieriger wurde, Weine zu finden, die den hohen Standards der Marke Maison Leroy gerecht wurden, beschloss Madame Lalou Bize-Leroy kurzerhand, sich ihre eigenen Weinberge zuzulegen. So kaufte sie mehrere Grundstücke zusammen und gründete 1988 die Domaine Leroy. Heute erstrecken sich die insgesamt 21 Hektar vorwiegend über als Grand Cru und Premier Cru eingestuften Zonen. Gemäß der festen Überzeugung von Madame Bize-Leroy, dass alles lebt – vom Boden über die Trauben bis hin zum Menschen – führte sie umgehend aus Achtung vor dem Terroir biodynamische Anbaumethoden ein. Diese einst umstrittene Art der Bewirtschaftung ist heute ein weithin bekannter holistischer Ansatz, der auf der Überzeugung beruht, dass alles mit allem zusammenhängt, unter Einbeziehung auch astrologischer und kosmischer Einflüsse. Ohne den Einsatz jeglicher synthetischer Dünger, Herbizide, Insektizide oder Pestizide werden die Weinberge das ganze Jahr hindurch in Handarbeit gepflegt. Die Ergebnisse dieses qualitätsbewussten Hauses sind frappierend: die Weine sind extrem konzentriert und doch raffiniert und von einer ungewöhnlichen Reinheit, die vom intuitiven Charakter ihrer Weinberge stammt.