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Red Burgundy Vintage Flashcards

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Red Burgundy

Excellent Vintages: 1970s

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1971, ‘76, ‘78

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Red Burgundy

Excellent Vintages: 1980s

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1983*, ‘85, ‘88/89

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Red Burgundy

Disaster Vintages: 1990s

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1992

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Red Burgundy

Excellent Vintages: 1990s

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1990, ‘93, ‘96, ‘98, ‘99

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1978 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Legendary Vintage - started out rainy, but an excellent dry-spell completed ripening just before harvest

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1981 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Poor Vintage - Small yields and low quality

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1982 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Good Vintage - Past-Maturity
•Large yields caused problems during harvest with space, many sacrificed color and time in the vat for the next lot of grapes

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1983 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - Some brilliant wines were made
•Hail in August between Chambolle and Vosne, followed by rain, then a heatwave caused rot
•Those who sorted properly made spectacular wines

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1984 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Disaster Vintage - Cold summer, rainy harvest

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1985 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Outstanding Vintage

•Non-Grand Cru wines have faded by now

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1986 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Tricky Vintage - wet, humid

•Perfect decision-making turned into gems, most of which are past-maturity now

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1987 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Tricky Vintage - the best wines were light and matured quickly
•Heavy rainfall, cool temperatures, alternating with dry, warm periods

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1988 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - Classic, long-lived wines with good depth of fruit

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1989 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - More charming than 1990 counterparts

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1990 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Legendary Vintage - Deeply colored, full-bodied and fruity wines
•The only criticism to these wines is that the fruit is a little cooked; hence the wines taste more of 1990 than they do of their origins

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1991 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Tricky Vintage - Well structured with plenty of fruit and grip
•Underrated

  • Hot, dry summer with a severe hailstorm on August 22nd
  • Harvest was bookended by rain, but there was a small window of dry weather–those who picked then made very good wines
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1992 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Poor Vintage - Rainy harvest

•Some soft, tender wines were made

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1993 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - Classic Wines

•Underrated vintage that produced excellent wines

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1994 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Tricky Vintage - Heavy rain in mid-September

•The best examples are soft, elegant, medium-bodied wines which are very pure expressions of Pinot Noir

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1995 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Good Vintage - Dark-fruited wines bolstered by good acidity and firm but supple tannins
•Softer than the ’93s and lack the purity of the ’96s

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1996 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - More elegant than the 1995s with higher acidity
•The rare combination of high levels of ripeness and high levels of acidity

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1997 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Good Vintage - Charming, ripe wines

•Lower acidity than the 1996s, lack the staying power of ‘96 and ‘98

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1998 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - Dark colors, elevated tannins

•These wines may lack the fruit to contend with extended aging ability of the tannins

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1999 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Legendary Vintage - Exceptional quality and quantity

•Powerful, charming and well balanced with great concentration

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2000 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Average Vintage - intense aromas and lush succulence on the palace
•Lower acidity and tannins than the 1999 counterparts

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2001 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Very Good to Excellent Vintage - Classically styled, with pure fruit
•Volnay hailstorm

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2002 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Very Good to Excellent Vintage - Pure, precise wines that are classically styled

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2003 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Poor Vintage - Heat Wave

•Some great wines were made

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2004 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Good Vintage - Puzzling Vintage for many
•The wines were lighter, perfumed and pure

•August Hail - Volnay, Pommard–both were the worst affected; resulting in concentrated wines with unusually high sugar levels

*Some consumers are more averse to ladybug aromas

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2005 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Legendary Vintage? - Powerful, rich but fresh wines, with ripe tannins
•The wines are quite closed
•Skin to juice ratio was very high due to the dry conditions

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2006 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Very Good Vintage - Good freshness, ripeness and concentration, but very pure wines

  • Variable weather and fears of rain at harvest
  • Hail (July) - Chambolle, Gevrey
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2007 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Good Vintage - Fruity, generous wines with low tannins
•Producers were forced to harvest due to sugar levels, but the grapes lacked the phenolics they had hoped
•Colder weather all season long developed grapes with very thin skins

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2008 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Good Vintage - Lively, elegant and a purity of fruit
•Cool, wet and miserable until mid-June
•Coulure, mildew and hail

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2009 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - Ripe, fleshy wines with soft acidity
•Compared to 1999 or 1990

•Severe frost in Dec ‘09 killed some vines

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2010 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Excellent Vintage - Classic wines

•Very small crops and clusters, had there not been an issue with yields the berries probably wouldn’t have ripened

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2011 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Very Good Vintage - Soft and pretty wines
•Not as exceptional as ‘09 or ‘10
•Hail in the Cote de Beaune

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2012 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Very Good Vintage - Classic wines
•Hail, coulure, mildew and oidium
•Excellent weather in August and September

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2013 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Good Vintage - Lively, pure wines
•Hail in the Cote de Beaune
•Rot issues but a warm September

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2014 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Good Vintage - Elegant, lively, lighter-styled wines
•Hail in the Cote de Beaune
•Asian fruit fly problem this year

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2015 Red Burgundy Vintage

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Very Good Vintage - Rich, weighty wines but better transparency than 2009
•Alcohol levels may be an issue
•Acid levels are crucial

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