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Maison Patrice Rion Nuits St.-Georges 'Les Cailles' Premier Cru(2002)
- Winery:
- Maison Patrice Rion
- Varietal:
- Region:
- France > Burgundy
- Type:
- Red Wine
- User Tags:
- intense, lenoir grape, cellar, acidic, petrol, smooth, yield, dried, hay, explosive
- Burghound
- Issue 13, Jan 01, 2004
- 89/100
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May 2008
- Patrice Rion, who says that his state-of-the-art winery is now running smoothly, reports that yields were about the same as in 2001, which is to say 35 to 38 hl/ha but with better sugars, which averaged between 13 and 13.5%. We chaptalized nothing, he reports, saying that pHs were around 3.5 after the long, very slow malos were completed. We had almost no rot, which is funny in a way because August was so ugly that I bought a second sorting table to deal with what I was sure was going to be lots of rot affected bunches! The quality here continues to improve and while the 2002s are not head and shoulders above read more...
