Vintage d’Emotion – Using the Vintage Charts

A vintage chart can be used in different ways and can provide benefits in many situations.

One method is more unusual, but can lead you to wines with good emotional qualities: Looking for an older emotional vintage can get you a more mature pinot in the glass.

A vintage chart can provide unexpected hedonistic pleasure by choosing a vintage like 2013. The wines from this vintage are now quite rare on restaurant lists, and most top-end names are long gone, having been sold to geeks and label drinkers while they were still very young.

	Rating:	Drink	Emotic
2013	90-92p	Drink	❤️❤️❤️

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But if you look for some lesser appellations from 2013, they can still turn up on wine lists; for example, Le Bistro de l’Hôtel in Beaune.

It has a Domaine Hudelot-Noëllat Vougeot Les Petits Vougeots 2013, a mature, complex, and delicate glass. It’s not big and intense, but is nonetheless a hedonistic treat in my book: a mature 1er cru with a generous, light-footed expression of its terroir. Not exactly cheap, but a chance to taste a more mature Burgundy from Côte de Nuits!

You would most likely never search for a Vougeot 1er cru, and Hudelot-Noëllat is often forgotten in the points race. This is too bad, as the domaine offers fine qualities as the oak integrates. This 2013 was a joy. ❤️❤️

So search for a vintage d’émotion, and be open-minded regarding terroir and producer!

The goal must be to find a vin d’émotion, and if you go further in drinkability and maturity, you can find Domaine Fourrier.

The 1er cru Gevrey-Chambertin Cherbaudes is a mature treat from Fourrier; mature to fully mature, with the delights of older pinot. Forest floor, red berries, mushrooms, a hint of orange notes, the wine is not dense, quite light-footed, with a lovely expression of terroir. The Fourrier fruit is always joyous and silky, even in 2013. A wine for the experienced Burgundy drinker. I loved it: a vin d’émotion. ❤️❤️❤️

So: Vintage d’émotion and producer is a good tack to take.