This vintage allowed us to finally experience Saumur-Champigny’s characteristic mild weather, with occasional rain and reasonable heat during the spring and summer, and colder temperatures during the harvest. How nice it is to work in familiar conditions! The wines came out with a good tension in the mouth and tannins that soften nicely with the years. We’ve held on to a few bottles so that you can rediscover this vintage after ten years of aging.

Some named it “the vintage of the century” at the time, but it looks like several new vintages entered the competition since then! The spring and the summer were an alternation of rain and hot days, making it the perfect environment for the good maturation of the grapes and leading to a perfect harvest weather. The wines made that year are to be kept for five to ten years to allow them to reveal their full potential.

A very sporty year with torrents of rain until the end of June, followed by a drought that lasted from the end of July until the end of the harvest. Ripening was slow, very slow, but eventually happened and the grapes were fresh and crisp at harvest. A very good vintage in the end!

This year was marked first by frost, which ravaged half of the vineyard while the strands were already well grown in mid-April. This was followed by an intense drought, concentrating all the sun received by the leaves in the remaining grapes. The challenge was to preserve the freshness of our wines and their acidity, which we managed to do and gave us powerful wines while remaining very digestible. A good year, with good aging potential for the great vintages.

After a particularly mild winter, a tropical vintage from the beginning of the season until July, followed by magnificent weather during the harvest. A year that we will remember: extremely qualitative, unfortunately marred by a very minimal quantity at the estate due to a massive attack of mildew.