Burgundy 2008?

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David from Switzerland

David Plattner
We're currently being offered (I wasn't aware it's still being done) 2008 red Burgundy on subscription. Anyone know something on the vintage in general, specific appellations, specific producers, wines...? Thanks in advance!

Greetings from Switzerland, David.
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J'ai gch vingt ans de mes plus belles annes au billard. Si c'tait refaire, je recommencerais. Roger Conti
 
Thanks for broaching this subject, David. I read somewhere in passing a month or so ago something like "In 2008, Burgundy was blessed again with another great vintage," but it sounded like the usual marketing BS. It would be great to get some credible views.

How about Joe Dressner? I hear he imports some wines from the region, and he is pretty trustworthy, despite his penchant for relentless self-promotion.
 
Math geeks would insist that your series include 1978, 1990, and 1993. Whatever their intersection set with Burgundy geeks...
 
You could run a pretty good string of underestimated and surprising vintages, though:

2007, 2004, 2001, 1998, 1995, 1992, 1989, 1986, 1983, 1980 until you run into 1977 and 1974.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Was 2004 underestimated?
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Must be if my friend Rainer's claim is/were right - he once insisted he finds "astonishing parallelisms" between red Burgundy and Piedmont Nebbiolo vintages (although that was before 2002).

Greetings from Switzerland, David.
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J'ai gch vingt ans de mes plus belles annes au billard. Si c'tait refaire, je recommencerais. Roger Conti
 
originally posted by David from Switzerland:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Was 2004 underestimated?
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Must be if my friend Rainer's claim is/were right - he once insisted he finds "astonishing parallelisms" between red Burgundy and Piedmont Nebbiolo vintages (although that was before 2002).
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Geez, I think all you'd have to do is mention 1993 to dispute that theory. I've only had a few 1993s from Piemonte, but they were astonishingly bad despite being from good producers (Conterno Cascina Francia and Rinaldi Le Coste come to mind as particular examples).
 
Geez, I think all you'd have to do is mention 1993 to dispute that theory. I've only had a few 1993s from Piemonte, but they were astonishingly bad despite being from good producers (Conterno Cascina Francia and Rinaldi Le Coste come to mind as particular examples).
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Believe me, I enumerated quite a few such examples, but it can be quite fascinating to compare the characteristics of wines from respective top or at least equally successful vintages (e.g. 1971, 1978, 1985, 1990, 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2001).

Greetings from Switzerland, David.
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J'ai gch vingt ans de mes plus belles annes au billard. Si c'tait refaire, je recommencerais. Roger Conti
 
originally posted by mlawton:
originally posted by David from Switzerland:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Was 2004 underestimated?
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Must be if my friend Rainer's claim is/were right - he once insisted he finds "astonishing parallelisms" between red Burgundy and Piedmont Nebbiolo vintages (although that was before 2002).
Click to expand...

Geez, I think all you'd have to do is mention 1993 to dispute that theory. I've only had a few 1993s from Piemonte, but they were astonishingly bad despite being from good producers (Conterno Cascina Francia and Rinaldi Le Coste come to mind as particular examples).
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I was down on 1993 in Piemonte when they were young, but they have aged into very good wines, at least those that I've had over the last 5-6 years. But 1993 in Burgundy was, IMO, great from the get-go.

Overall quality may not match completely, but there is a strong similarity, IMO, among Loire, German, Burgundy, and Piemontese wines in the nature of the acidity for any given year. 2002 would be an outlier for Piemonte, but that is due to very specific weather circumstances there.
 
The Rhone also had bad weather in 2002.

There is just enough structure to the connections between European weather systems to allow a wine nut to drive him/herself completely nuts trying to find the precise formula governing vintage similarities.
 
originally posted by Steven Spielmann:
The Rhone also had bad weather in 2002.
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Yes, but I left the Rhne out of my formulation -- they are lower acid wines and so do not show the same character as the regions I mentioned.
 
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