yes obviously.
I’ve had quite a lot of her wines, but don’t seem to suffer any of these, must be doing something wrong…
So endlessly tiring. You drink ‘rare’ or ‘expensive’ wines and somehow you’re making up for some inadequacy. Why is that? Maybe you just like the wines and can afford to buy 'em?
Nope… ![[rofl.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/a/a7452fcd8e675af869f8da01174474a545b03944.gif "rofl"){kind=small}
I’m asking this for a friend… What wines are the best QPR if you need to compensate?
obviously
Ok. You might want to check out the erobertparker board. It’s generally a better place than this to describe wines you’ve never had.
A
Leroy’s rules of viticulture,
• Leroy does not replace an entire vineyard, ever. Only vine by vine as needed. The vines are replaced by young plants grown from buds of sister vines from the same vineyard. Using a visual selection to pick the most robust, promising bud, plants are grown and replaced in this way. All the vines are related and of various ages growing together, living together.
• Guyot pruning from mid-January to early April, only on days when the moon is passing the constellations: Sagittarius, Aries, Leo and if necessary, also Aquarius, Gemini, and Libra. A biodynamic wash is painted on each cut on the vine to speed healing and protect the open wound.
• Ebourgeonnage, removing some buds so that the yield stays lower.
• Ejetonnage, removing the buds which grow on the trunk from the rootstock.
• No clipping or trimming the end of the vines to avoid any kind of stress to the plant and also keep l’apex last bud on the branch.
• Removing any excess buds that are growing in between the node of the vine and any grapes that are growing after the first flowering.
• Palissage, attaching the branches on a wire of the end of the vines that have not been pruned.
• Making the most careful selection by hand of the grapes when picking, the grapes are brought to the cave in small baskets in refrigerated trucks.
• The grapes are then carefully sorted on two large sorting tables not moving conveyor belts, to choose only the best and healthiest grapes.
Resulted average yield across appellations 10 hl/ha and two bunches per vine in 2010 …. whereas yields at DRC in 2010 fell to 24 hl/ha.
Nice, thanks.
Leroy’s rules of pricing…
Multiply the perceived value of the wine by two, then to make sure we are exclusive enough - double it, then add another 100% on top…
Domaine Leroy next release offer! The Whites!
• 2009 Domaine Leroy Corton-Charlemagne € 1.850.-
• 2010 Domaine Leroy Bourgogne-Aligoté. € 75.-
Prices of Domaine Leroy Up 100% … ???
My dream is to be able to sell my existing stocks of Leroy wines for what she gets for the newest vintage. at $2,400 per bottle, all of my bottles (not too many, I have to admit) of Corton Charlie would have to hit the bricks…
I’ve heard from countless sources that the main reason for the low yields is that the vineyards are rather empty, having been ravaged by old age and disease and not replanted. They are good wines in my limited experience though I get far too much from the stems,particularly on the nose, and they seem to me to have only limited geographical rather than stylistic signatures.
That plus
Whipping up the frenzy even more was the fact that, > because of ineffective spraying against spring mildew> , the size of Domaine Leroy’s 1993 crop was even smaller than the already minuscule yields Lalou Bize-Leroy usually seeks. For example, in 1993 > Domaine Leroy had 2.45 bearing acres > in the grand cru Romanee-St. Vivant. Yet just > 75 cases > (three barrels) were produced, which means a theoretical yield of 7 hectoliters per hectare or one-half ton of grapes per acre.
Yeah. And GG’s are too expensive…
There is no question in my mind that d’Auvenay produces the best white Burgundies . I’ve been lucky enough to have drunk a lot of them . Even her Meursault Narvaux improves with age for at least 20 years . Recently , I stopped bying , I guess you know why .
It remains a mystery why this old spinster keeps on raising the prices of her wines . Does she want to take all her money with her in her grave ? She’s 84 years old and owns 25 % of DRC , big part of Domaine leroy and Leroy negoce ( millions of bottles ). Her greed would pale Ebenezer Scrooge .
I am much less of a fan of the red wines of d’Auvenay . For some reason , they always tasted highly acidic , like if something was added to the wine…
There’s too expensive and then there is batsh** loony.
… for those waiting for Lalou’s Criot-Batard-Montrachet - she made 75-litres.
Only Central Banksters can create inflation.
[Markets, acting more or less naturally, actually tend to create DEFLATION over the long run. But, of course, deflation is anathema to Central Banksters - it destroys their shell game, and once their shell game collapses, Central Banksters have a bad tendency to get strung up and hung from tree limbs. Or from meat hooks.]
Wow, that is only 100 bottles. I guess I am really lucky to have gotten three bottles then 