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CLAIMING THE GOLD
Presented by: ATTORNEY VOSNE RANGER
ATTORNEY JEDI GEVREY
JUDGE MISSI HOLLE
BAILIFF SHIELDS
IN VINO VERITAS
Romans: 92 AD Beaunois Priest, Claude Arnoux: London, 1728 “the most considerable wine in all Burgundy…It has all the qualities and none of the defects of the other wines”
Glorious Beginnings
Gabriacus : 640 AD Abbey of Bèze, Duke of Burgundy Monks of the Abbey of Bèze work the land and plant vines Peasant by the name of ‘Bertin’ ‘Campus’ or ‘Champ Bertin’ Chambertin is born
GREATNESS IS YOUR DESTINY JURASSIC PERIOD
CHAMBERTIN-ASAURUS
ROMANEE-ATOPS Warm, shallow sea SedimentationJURASSIC of sea lilies and seaPERIOD creature fossils Gave their life… • Limestone and marl deposits
The real reason dinosaurs became extinct Limestone/calcareous: Marl: (combination of promotes grape acidity, fossils limestone/calcareous and clay) (calcium) promotes grape acidity Good water retention and Stony, sand: drains very well drainage Topsoil: thin, retains water but has good drainage
Total size: 974 acres N Grand Cru: 211 acres Premier Cru: 192 acres PREMIER CRU Village level: 571 acres
Exclusively Pinot Noir
GRAND CRU 26 Premier Cru Appellations N 2 facing sections: south, east Many different microclimates Combe de Lavaux
Estournelles St Jacques Lavaux St Jacques
Clos St Jacques
Ruchottes, Mazis Le Clos St Jacques Le Clos Saint Jacques
Unanimous belief Perfectly positioned Soil: white marl Monopole until 1953, today 5 owners Style: rich, full, great depth
Contiguous, south facing N Gentle hillside, 1000 ft
Protected from wind, sun trap PREMIER CRU
GRAND CRU One-third of all Grands Crus N Microclimate diversity Base: limestone Topsoil: rich clay particles
RUCHOTTES CHAMBERTIN LATRICIERES CLOS DE BEZE
MAZIS
GRIOTTE MAZOYERES CHAPELLE CHARMES GREATNESS IN NUMBERS
Chambertin : 32.1 acres Clos de Beze: 38 acres Chapelle-Chambertin: 13.5 acres Charmes-Chambertin: 71.5 acres Mazis-Chambertin: 21.7 acres Mazoyeres-Chambertin: 4.2 acres Ruchottes-Chambertin: 7.4 acres Griotte-Chambertin: 6.4 acres Latricieres-Chambertin: 17.4 acres TOTAL: 211 Grand Cru Acres Emperor of France Revolutionary Free-thinker Military genius Defeated armies in Austria, Egypt, Italy, Syria King Louis the Great ‘there is no equal’ King Louis Philippe 1847: first to allow, Gevrey-Chambertin CHAMBERTIN
5,000 cases, 32 acres 55 parcels, 25 proprietors 150 square feet Sheltered under Montagne de la Combe, 1000 feet White oolite soil Fine earth/pebbles, 68/32
40 parcels, 15 proprietors 5,000 cases, 38 acres North of Chambertin, same altitude of 1000 feet Slightly steeper, less deep Small stones and pebbles, limestone base
DRINK LIKE AN EMPEROR
Total of 24 Grand Crus in “Nothing makes the future Cote d’Nuits, Gevrey has look so rosy as to almost half of them contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin” “Pinnacle of Pinot Noir” – Napoleon – Clive Coates, MW King Louis the Great: ‘It has all the qualities and ‘there is no equal’ none of the defects of the other wines’ - Priest Claude Arnoux CÔTE DE NUITS
13 miles long
Production: 862,400 cases 97% in Pinot Noir
Includes 24 of the 33 Grand Cru vineyards Assassin in the vineyard Vines for Ransom
M. Aubert de Villaine, Co-Director DRC Vosne-Romanee VOSNE-ROMANEE FAST FACTS
Home of the Priory of St-Vivant since AD 890.
Cistercians arrive in the 12th century.
Name from “voone”, meaning forest.
6 Grands Crus, 14 Premiers Crus SOME INTERESTING COMPARISONS
Total Wine Production: Gevrey - 232,000 cs Vosne - 95,000 cs
Grands Crus %: Gevrey - 15% Vosne - 27%
Premiers Crus %: Gevrey - 16% Vosne - 26%
THE PERFECT SOIL
A Blue Ribbon Recipe
Ingredients: white oolite calcaire a entroques thicken with ostrea acuminata and shake softly, cover with a 2ft top soil and pebble layer place on a gently sloping, east facing incline with fractured base rock of premeaux limestone
VOSNE-ROMANÉE
KEY
N GEVREY-CHAMBERTIN LEGEND
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KEY Vosne Beaumonts, Suchots Vosne Malconsorts La Tache, Romanee Conti,Romanée St Vivant Nuits St Georges Les Boudots
Richebourg VOSNE-ROMANEE GRANDS CRUS
*Romanee-Conti: 4.03 ac; 455 cs
*La Romanee: 2.1 ac; 333 cs
Richebourg: 18.3 ac; 2800 cs
*La Tache: 12.4 ac; 1700 cs
Romanee-Saint-Vivant: 23 ac; 3100 cs
*La Grande Rue: 4.1 ac; 522 cs
* Indicates a “monopole” GRANDS CRUS NOTES
La Romanee - the smallest appellation in France (2.1 ac).
La Tache - much soil variation due to vineyard’s elevational change (255-300m).
Richebourg - best of the non-monopoly grands crus, and better than La Grande Rue.
GRAND CRU NOTES
Romanee-Saint-Vivant - most delicate of the Vosne Grands Crus. It is silk, where Richebourg is velvet.
La Grande Rue - became Grand Cru in 1992.
FLAGEY GRANDS CRUS
Les Grands Echezeaux (22.6 acres) ----a Cistercian property from the 12th century.
Echezeaux (89 acres) ----more variable due to “terroir” variances and fragmentation of ownership.
FLAGEY- ECHEZEAUX
N Les Amoureuses Echezeaux Musigny Petits Musigny (Musigny)
Clos Vougeot
Grands Echezeaux VOSNE-ROMANÉE “THE BEST OF THE REST”
KEY
N SOME TOP PREMIERS CRUS
Malconsorts, 14.47 ac, next to La Tache.
Les Beaux Monts, 28.1 ac, next to Echezeaux.
Cros Parantoux, 2.5 ac, above Richebourg.
Aux Reignots, 4 ac, above La Romanee SELECTED PRODUCERS
Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, 63.2 ac
Domaine Leroy, 54.34 ac
Comte Liger-Belair, 22 ac
Jean Grivot, 38.3 ac
Meo Camuzet, 12.9 ac TIME TO TASTE FLIGHT ONE – VILLAGE LEVEL Frederic Barnier Vineyards west of N74 on PC One month maceration and GC slope Twice a day punch-down Buy fruit, long term contracts 10 months French barrique Hand picked, hand sorted No fining or filtering FLIGHT TWO – PREMIER CRU CLOS SAINT JACQUES
Only 5 owners, should have been GC 1 month fermentation 18-20 months barrique Great vintages age over 40 yrs 6 months bottle aged Mature and complex
Jacques Lardiere FLIGHT THREE – GRAND CRU Vintage 2001 1 month oak vat fermentation Regular punch-down 18-20 months barrique
A CASE FOR VOSNE-ROMANEE
Unsurpassed “terroir”
THE PERFECT SOIL
A Blue Ribbon Recipe
Ingredients: white oolite calcaire a entroques thicken with ostrea acuminata and shake softly, cover with a 2ft top soil and pebble layer place on a gently sloping, east facing incline with fractured base rock of premeaux limestone
A CASE FOR VOSNE-ROMANEE
Price Leaders
VINTAGE 2011
$12,500/btl $1500/btl Jacques Lardiere VINTAGE 2011
$845/btl $275/btl A CASE FOR VOSNE-ROMANEE
Superlative Producers A CASE FOR VOSNE-ROMANEE
Wine Critics Choice VOSNE-ROMANEE “THE CRITICS CHOICE”
“the greatest pinot noir “the brightest star in the village on Earth” Cote de Nuits”
Clive Coate s Remington Norman FROM “NOTES ON A CELLAR BOOK”
“Chambertin has never been a favourite of mine, I prefer Richebourg”
George Saintsbury Smokescreens Cost due to quantity, not quality Handful of quality producers TRUTH: Gevrey-Chambertin 9 GC, Vosne Romanee 6 GC G.Chambertin 192 PC, Vosne Romanee 139 PC G.Chambertin 211 GC acres, Vosne Romanee 64… 3.5 times less!
TIME TO VOTE TIME FOR A NAP