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Tasted in Beaune with Geoffroy Choppin de Janvry, 16 November 2016.

Domaine Albert Morot
20 Avenue Charles Jaffelin
21200 Beaune
Tel: +33 3 80 22 35 39

Albert Morot was a negoce, but bought their own vines in late 1800s. Today they have 8ha but virtually only 1er Crus – seven in Beaune and one in Savigny-lès-Beaune. “We have good parcels, principally with old vines.”

Geoffroy on 2016:
“We were very lucky in 2016. We had just completed the majority of the ploughing before the frost arrived – we still lost 50 – I can’t imagine how bad it would have been if we hadn’t ploughed. In a normal year of bio I would make about 12 treatments per year, but this year it was 17 or more because of the mildew, but, at least for us, the main mildew attack was in Savigny.”

Geoffroy on 2015:
“2015 delivered roughly 28-30 hl/ha – which is not particularly low for us. That’s assuming our malos eventually finish! Then probably I will bottle in March, which is later than in 2014, but the 2015s have the richness and weight to shake that off.”

The wines:

Whole berries not whole bunches, “We have a very soft destemmer here since 2014.” Geoffroy say that he did a couple of whole-cluster te