Score: 92-95
Tasted: Jan 10, 2012
Drink: 2025+
Issue: 45
Outstanding
Note: from a .33 ha of 50+ year old vines that abut Cazetiers; 65% stems
Producer note: Bernard Dugat, who now manages 10 ha with the addition of several recent purchases and some vineyards from within the Dugat-Py family, said that 2010 had an “irregular growing season where a troubled flowering produced a high incidence of shot berries. Because we have so many old vines, we never have high yields but they were definitely on the low side with a range of only 18 to 23 hl/ha. We began picking on the 21st of September and brought in very clean fruit that required little in the way of serious sorting. Potential alcohols were very good and came in between 12.5 and 13.3%. We did our usual vinification that used a high proportion of stems. I like the 2010s a lot as there is really good energy and transparency to the wines.” As was the case with the Dugat-Py 2008s, the quality of the in-bottle ’09s is among the best the vintage produced and if you can find the wines, they are most impressive. It pays to remember however that the Dugat-Py wines are built for the very long haul and it is largely pointless to open them young. (The Sorting Table, www.thesortingtable.com, Napa, CA; Lea & Sandeman, www.leaandsandeman.co.uk, UK, Tanners Wine, www.tanners-wines.co.uk, UK, Uncorked Ltd, www.uncorked.co.uk, UK and Thorman Hunt & Co., e-mail: Camille@thormanhunt.co.uk, UK).
Tasting note: This is almost like a hypothetical combination of the Gevrey “1er” and the Petite Chapelle with a ripe and admirably pure nose of cassis, spiced plum, wet stone and pungent earth aromas. There is genuinely brilliant complexity to the exceptionally rich and equally stony broad-shouldered flavors that possess perhaps a bit more refinement than usual on the strikingly persistent finish. This is a stunner of a Champeaux in a vintage that produced any number of them.
Bernard Dugat-Py, Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru, Champeaux 2010
US$1,700 / 每箱價格
Score: 92-95
Tasted: Jan 10, 2012
Drink: 2025+
Issue: 45
Outstanding
Note: from a .33 ha of 50+ year old vines that abut Cazetiers; 65% stems
Producer note: Bernard Dugat, who now manages 10 ha with the addition of several recent purchases and some vineyards from within the Dugat-Py family, said that 2010 had an “irregular growing season where a troubled flowering produced a high incidence of shot berries. Because we have so many old vines, we never have high yields but they were definitely on the low side with a range of only 18 to 23 hl/ha. We began picking on the 21st of September and brought in very clean fruit that required little in the way of serious sorting. Potential alcohols were very good and came in between 12.5 and 13.3%. We did our usual vinification that used a high proportion of stems. I like the 2010s a lot as there is really good energy and transparency to the wines.” As was the case with the Dugat-Py 2008s, the quality of the in-bottle ’09s is among the best the vintage produced and if you can find the wines, they are most impressive. It pays to remember however that the Dugat-Py wines are built for the very long haul and it is largely pointless to open them young. (The Sorting Table, www.thesortingtable.com, Napa, CA; Lea & Sandeman, www.leaandsandeman.co.uk, UK, Tanners Wine, www.tanners-wines.co.uk, UK, Uncorked Ltd, www.uncorked.co.uk, UK and Thorman Hunt & Co., e-mail: Camille@thormanhunt.co.uk, UK).
Tasting note: This is almost like a hypothetical combination of the Gevrey “1er” and the Petite Chapelle with a ripe and admirably pure nose of cassis, spiced plum, wet stone and pungent earth aromas. There is genuinely brilliant complexity to the exceptionally rich and equally stony broad-shouldered flavors that possess perhaps a bit more refinement than usual on the strikingly persistent finish. This is a stunner of a Champeaux in a vintage that produced any number of them.
