Ouch.
Todd, send a Deputy’s badge to Martin.
No response here but updates in CC
Please permit me to be nakedly self-interested rather than subtly so. Has any portion of the Arnoux price stupidity carried over to the pre-2010 period? BEcause if so, all of mine (Chaumes and Pagets) are going to Winebid.
They haven’t exploded like the 2017+ vintages, but there has certainly been some price appreciation.
For example, there was some older Latricieres Chambertin at $380 (pre-vig) at Winebid a few weeks ago but the 2018 village wines went for around $800.
I thought a letter sent out to the importers of Arnoux-Lachaux may be of interest to some on this thread:
2020, an exceptionnal vintage
At the time of confinement, mid-march, the good weather settles in France until mid-september. The vines
takes advantage to take a 3 weeks lead as soon as budbreak. It keeps it until the harvest, which will start on
August 17 at the estate. Historical precocity !
In recent years, we’ve made so many changes in the vineyard management :
- Return to « Gobelet » pruning to limit buds, and so, yields.
- Stop trimming to optimize photosynthesis, rooting of the plant, and resistance to vine diseases.
- Stop tilling and establishment of regenerative farming to enhance soils diversity, restore the bacterial
flora. Development of agro-pastoralism.
This agronomic approach, « Agriculture du Vivant », improves resilience, while increasing the natural
balance of the life of our plants.
These technologies combined with biodynamic methods, have the ambition to strenghten the « Vivant »,
restrict the quantity of grapes, to collect the healthiest, the most concentrated, the most balanced grapes.
After several years of application of these methods, the fruits we get have deeply changed. The special
conditions of the vintage have generated unprecetended and rather uniques balances.
In a logical way, we decided to increase the elevage in barrels until two years, to perfect the precision of the
cuvees. After that, the wines will rest in the cellar, to be released one year after bottling, that might happen
during fall 2023.
2020 allocations’ll be sent to you in spring 2023.
Thanks to this daily work and your thougtful messages, we look to the future with great
enthusiasm. We wanted to share that with you.
Thank you !
Very warmly,
Florence Arnoux-Lachaux & Charles Lachaux