Bruno Clair Morey St Denis en la Rue de Vergy

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The medium-to-dark ruby-colored Morey-St.-Denis En La Rue Vergy's nose was totally muted when I tasted it but it revealed thick, velvety-textured dark fruits with earthy and minerally notes ensconced in a highly structured, masculine medium body. Big and slightly tannic, this wine will be at its best between 2002-2006.This note is the result of tastings I did in Burgundy between January 7 and January 29. The wine was tasted from cask, not bottle. Pinot Noir, a fragile varietal, reacts poorly to fining, filtration, and careless bottling techniques, I recommend caution when considering buying a red burgundy based on cask samples. I called it as I tasted it, and hope the bottled wine reflects the quality of the samples I was provided.The Marsannay appellation, the northernmost of the Cote d'Or, in reality a suburb of Dijon, is only known to the Burgundy cognoscenti, but on these hillsides Clair makes some of Burgundy's finest values. In '95, a hail storm on July 23 damaged Clair's grapes in Marsannay, popping some berries open and threatening the onset of rot. However, subsequent rain storms washed the broken berries from the vines leaving only the healthy ones. His yields were significantly reduced because of this occurrence (a mere 22 hectoliters/hectare), but Clair's wines are clean.Importer: Vineyard Brands, Chester, VT; tel. (802) 875-2139.