Vintage

1970

Balanced

A record crop stored on barges

Widely declared

Sunshine and rain at the right time gave a record crop, so large that houses stored wine on barges on the Marne. Finely structured wines with depth.

The harvest

Picking began27 September

Record crop of 800,000 pièces, the record until 1979. Unsettled for much of the year, then a sunny, hot September.

The house has kept its own pace through every vintage, and the cellar still works the way it always has: one press, one tank, one decision at a time.

Everything here is allowed to settle slowly. The wines rest longer than the market asks for, and the family tastes the whole range before anything leaves the cellar.

What follows is written from visits, from bottles opened too early and a few opened at exactly the right moment.

The house has kept its own pace through every vintage, and the cellar still works the way it always has: one press, one tank, one decision at a time.

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