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I am sure one could get very used to drinking this wine, given the fiscal resources necessary.
This is a very rare wine. Hard to source. Nice note.
Wow. Like Leflaive, never seen a bottle…
A great wine! PYCM is making great wines in all terroirs. And he is very humble and a nice man.
Just had his 2003 Champs Gains this weekend. Was hard to believe it was his first official vintage as he railed nailed a tough year. PYCM is one of the best for sure.
Certainly a wine I would like to see some day.
How does a newcomer just waltz right in and source fruit from the greatest terroirs in the world?
Does he have strong familial connections to the plots which he’s sourcing?
I guess the same questions would apply to guys like Girardin and Boillot.
It seems like normals folk would have to wait 30 or 40 years for a chance to source fruit like that.
If not 300 or 400 years.
Paul,
He started bottling in 2001. One of the reasons that that year really didn’t make it out was that a friend of mine bought almost the whole production straight from Chassagne area. I had a chance to taste some Puligny Champ Gains from 2001. That wine is so beautiful and has that teenage glow. Just getting secondary notes. Tremendous wine. He does do well in tough years like 2003, 2006 and especially 2009 which he absolutely killed.
His dad is Marc Colin. Marc Colin has Montrachet so I think it wasn’t too hard even with the strained relations for Pierre-Yves to get a small parcel.
Thanks Don. Although I blame you because now I have to work to try to taste his 2001s…
gimme
Thanks for sharing Barry!
Usually 1 barrel per year Peter, but from grapes rather than must.
I think you can reasonably expect this wine to be brilliant, because if PYCM doesn’t see enough of a step-up from his Chevalier, he says he sells it on…
found the 2011 on a wine store shelf for just $749.99 each today–3 bottles. They are still there.
I saw a 2009 the other day in a local delicatessen. I recall it was circa 600 euro’s.
Decided that was too much money. Bought a 2004 Leflaive Montrachet two weeks after, for a bit more… It’s all relative I guess.
… too much of this and almost all other white wine would start to seem very ordinary.
Luckily he spares us from this risk by only making a barrel a year… But not every year !
I always wondered what happened to cause the strained relations? All I ever read was that he wanted to take more decisions on how to make the wines so he started PYCM on the side, which eventually led to him leaving the family domaine in 2005 and moving to Chassagne?
With his acute devotion to quality, Pierre-Yves decided to sell his purchased barrel of 2010 Le Montrachet, which was atypically overripe for his taste and the vintage.
Who is “Morey”?
His Mom?
Pierre-Yves is the son of Marc Colin and his wife is the daughter of Jean-Marc Morey. Thus the new Domaine name in the village of —Colin-Morey.