vintage
Vintage 2018
2018 is an early-harvest vintage marked by a spring and summer that were very hot and dry, resulting in very complete ripeness and perfectly healthy grapes. After a relatively mild and rainy winter 2017-2018, the cool, damp start of spring forecast a rather late harvest. The return of hot weather in April changed all that
Vintage 2017
A vintage noted for the early return of springtime warmth, followed by a hot and sunny summer that was to extend well beyond harvest time. Winemakers trembled with fear on 27th and 29th April. Temperatures forecast to be below 0°C in the early morning led to fears of reliving the frost havoc of the previous
Vintage 2016
2016 – a vintage that began painfully with a springtime frost on the morning of 27th April that destroyed more than half the crop in the Côte-d’Or. Our domain was relatively spared, with an overall loss of 30%, but very variable as a function of different parcels: the Vosne Romanée village was untouched, as well
Vintage 2015
2015 is the result of a vegetative season particularly favourable to the creation of great red wines in Burgundy. The level of sunshine was exceptional, with a 10% surplus compared with normal. Temperatures were 2°C above average in April, June and July and by 1°C in August and September. Very dry weather set in already
Vintage 2014
Spring was particularly dry and hot, with vegetative growth starting very early, from the end of March. These very favourable conditions lasted until the end of June, bringing about hasty vine flowering during the first week of June, then rapid swelling of the grapes, which reached the stage of fully-formed bunches by 1st July, some
Vintage 2013
2013 is once again a vintage responsible for seriously stressing the winegrowers in Burgundy. We had a bad fight against mildew and oidium on our hands, in view to bring healthy grapes to the winery. An exceptionally cold and wet month of May explains mainly th delay in harvesting, starting in Vosne the 6th of