Dude, you crushed it! Will have to get some tips if I ever make it back to Burgundy
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Amazing report and notes Melvin!
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Amazing trip Melvin! I followed on IG and I’m still sad I couldn’t make Bize and l’Ãme-Soeur and the staple Ramonet B-M!
I still have those 3 champagne bottles I had put aside for that night. I’m debating holding on to them for next time or drinking them without shame and finding another 3 next time you’re here 
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If you include Champagne in your itinerary next time around, make sure to leave room for three producers I want you to meet
Amazing report and notes, thank you!
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Mel,
Sorry if I missed it, but did you try the Drouhin Malconsort?
Mike
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Yes, great reports, Melvin,
Thanks! And some surprised, including the Dancer, whose work I usually really like.
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@Phil_T_r_o_t_t_e_r Yes will have to catch you the next time, and no worries am sure whatever you share will be good! I will bear that in mind for next year.
@Mike_Reff the Malconsorts was part of the Vosne 1er blend, together with Chaumes and Petits Monts.
@Joshua_Kates Me too but I read that they have taken a more natural stance which has been divisive, if this was reflective then I am not a fan either.
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I was sad to read about Éric’s impending retirement as well - but it is well deserved. While it is great that he will still make some Côte-Rôtie, it’s a shame he won’t be making his great Brézèmes any longer. Thank you @Eric_Texier !
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Reviving this thread as I just opened a 2020 Dancer Bourgogne Blanc last week. It was beautiful: real depth of white fruits, complex, lithe, a little mineral. I don’t know about the '22, but I’m glad to have a couple more of these.
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Thank you for the great notes and photos.
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I think 2020 was still transitioning to Theo’s new style (I bought some Chassagne 1ers from the vintage), but '22 was full on natty and experimental from what I have heard…
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That doesn’t sound good.
2020 is Theo’s first vintage and can also show somewhat “natural”, especially on the nose; I would not call 2022 “experimental”, but it shows more natural, yes. Theo is still learning (and he’s open about this), but there’s clear progression. I had the 2023 whites from barrel and they are less “natural”.
Do you have a sense of what Theo is after, Greg?
Vincent’s style was already pretty modern and the Tete du Clos du when it was more affordable was one of my favorite whites.
Is he using amphora and glass globes for the whites too? Heard he is good friends with Charles Lachaux so have been adapting his practices.
I think he’s trying to make good wine with great farming but without too much intervention, though he’s also not explicitly “natural” and not leaning too much into that label or aesthetic - i.e. he’s not opposed to sulfur.
I’m not sure I’d characterize Vincent’s wines as modern? I think they had some variability (particularly in 2018), but overall they were relatively classic Burgundy - certainly he produced some spectacular 2010s, 2013s and 2017s.
If he’s experimenting with alternative vessels, I didn’t see it - everthing we tried was from barrel.
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I was thinking of 2017 Tete, Greg,
And the Les Corbins or BB. By modern, i did not mean hypermodern. It always had a good acid line and often some flint–not big and round, like old Leflaive or Jobard, which are by no means, of course, bad wines when on.
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I just opened the 17 Tete du Clos a few weeks back! Fabulous wine; I drank through quite a bit of the 17 Perrieres, which is just spectacular. I am honestly not sure what “modern” means in this context though; to me Vincent’s wines (when at their best) were relatively lithe, with good acids and good roundness without being fat - Meursault, with tongue coating fruit, but on the lively side without oak dominance. If you mean that it’s made without too much oak, then yes, agreed with that.
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