Notes & Queries
Mar 03, 2021
3 minutes
Burgundy 2008s
What is your view on the 2008 vintage for red Burgundy today?
Trond A Gudbrandsen, by email
Charles Curtis MW replies: The 2008 vintage in Burgundy is remembered as perhaps the best example of a season ‘saved by the bell’, or more appropriately, saved by une belle arrière-saison – the timely intervention of dry, sunny weather at the very last moment.
Growers certainly needed saving in 2008. The season started poorly – snow almost until Easter – and it
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