WHILST WE ARE ON THE SUBJECT OF VINTAGES 📅🍇
Have you tasted 2010 vintage Champagne? How did you find it? What’s your favourite Champagne vintage? 🇫🇷
I bought this bottle whilst visiting @ruinart last year due to interesting nature of the 2010 vintage. 2010 is a very special cuvée, only a few vintages were declared in this difficult year. With patience, this bottle will gain in complexity and intensity over time 🕰
The 2010 harvest in Champagne was a major contrast to the previous two successful, relatively easy to manage and unusually healthy crops. After early worries about a lack of water, the equivalent of over two months rain fell in just three days leading to Pinot berries swelling to bursting point in some clay based soils and early outbreaks of botrytis 😱
The crop then ripened very rapidly with serious worries about rot spreading especially among the more susceptible Pinots as damp mild conditions prevailed until mid-September ☀
Halfway through the harvest the weather changed for the better with very warm days and cool nights, this helped ripen the cooler vineyards as well as restricting the further spread of rot 🦠
This blend of Chardonnay and Pinot appears to have successfully battled through a rough vintage, patience will pay dividends for those who ride it out 🍾
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