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Burgundy 2023 en primeur vintage rating and overview:
Whites: 4/5
Charming wines, but hot temperatures can sometimes mean low acidity and high alcohol
Reds: 4/5
Lovely fruit, rich texture, but less potential for ageing than 2022
In the opinion of Frédéric Lafarge of Domaine Michel Lafarge, ‘2022 was a great vintage to lay down; 2023 was a vintage of great charm.’
If all’s well that ends well, the 2023 vintage in Burgundy can be considered a great success. The vintage wasn’t without its challenges, however, and thus quality is more uneven than in 2022.
The biggest trap to avoid was producing too much. ‘The key was not to fall into excess,’ says négociant Benjamin Leroux. ‘It was essential to work well in the vines in order to control the yield. The quality is lovely – the whites are great if you picked in time; for the reds, it’s a question of yield and of sorting.’
He continues: ‘There is a lot of wine, even potentially more than in 2018. It was absolutely obligatory to green harvest [remove a proportion of bunches before they begin to ripen]. In certain places, we had to drop half of the crop.’
Scroll down to see tasting notes and scores for Charles Curtis MW’s Burgundy 2023…
Source : https://www.decanter.com/premium/burgundy-2023-en-primeur-full-vintage-report-top-scoring-wines-546224/
