Ghislaine Barthod, Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Cras, 2016 Tellier 102224 creating significant day-night temperature differences

creating significant day-night temperature differences that preserve freshness and complexity

an east-facing site of sandy

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fermenting in old cement vats and aging in barrel with almost nothing changed across generations

Ghislaine Barthod, Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Cras, 2016 Tellier 102224 creating significant day-night temperature differencesThe frost of April 2016 hit Chambolle Musigny harder than almost any commune in the Cote de Nuits, which is why so little of this wine exists and why the little that does is so good. A single savage frost on the night of 26 April took out much of the crop, mildew took more, and then the weather turned fine from late June through a September harvest, concentrating what survived into a wine that is classical, tightly knit and unusually mineral even by