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Matrot-Wittersheim Blagny La Pièce-sous-le-Bois 1er Cru(2001)
- Winery:
- Matrot-Wittersheim
- Varietal:
- Pinot Noir
- Region:
- France > Burgundy > Côte de Beaune > Blagny
- Type:
- Red Wine
- User Tags:
- woody, purity, finesse, dried, hay, harvest, oak - heavy, sophisticated, fine, mineral
- Burghound
- Issue 10, Apr 01, 2003
- 89/100
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May 2008
- Claudine Russel directs this small 3.5 ha domaine that produced its first harvest in 1999. The philosophy here is very much a less is more approach and Mme Russel told me that she wants the absolute minimum oak influence that she can get. Finesse and purity is what we're after; wood is a vessel for achieving those ends and is certainly not meant to be a flavoring agent, she forthrightly declares. As such, new wood here averages barely 10%. Supremely elegant and pure black cherry aromas lead to precise, intense, sappy, sweet, even delicious flavors that finish with outstanding length. This read more...
