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Don’t miss out on the ‘04s
Despite, or perhaps rather because of, the plethora of 2004 Burgundy tastings in London last week, a consensus on the quality and style of the vintage was slow to emerge, raising questions among tasters as to whether the sampling of still-unfinished wines was even more treacherous than usual. All those who tasted the wines early last year agreed that the wines have benefited enormously from élevage, including exceptionally long malolactic fermentations, but that they have often tightened up when bottled as samples. ...
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