DOMAINE ROBLET-MONNOT
Pascal Roblet-Monnot runs this interesting 5.5 ha domaine where approach is completely biodynamique. Roblet-Monnot explained that 2005 was the "first normal harvest since 1999. We picked very late and finally managed to achieve good yields, which for us means between 31 and 35 hl/ha. Maturities, both in terms of phenolics and sugars, were very strong with everything coming in around 13%. The crop was exceptionally clean and we had only one person on the sorting table and that was basically just to remove twigs, bugs, leaves and so forth. The vinifications were easy and smooth and the malos unfolded comfortably as well. We did a slightly shorter élevage in wood but overall, the same length. I quite like the vintage and believe that it has everything it needs to age very well."
Roblet explained that 2006 was a "vintage where you had to be in the right vineyard at the right time. You had to proceed very slowly, very carefully and very thoroughly. For example, we started picking in Volnay on the 18th of September and didn't finish until the 6th of October in Pommard. It was exacting work because the sorting was absolutely essential. And while sorting once the grapes arrive at the cuvérie is all well and good, I don't know how people think that they tell their pickers to hurry up and throw everything in the same bucket, which is to say the clean, the questionable and the rotten and then we'll sort it out once it gets on a sorting table. By then, it's too late as the rotten grapes have rubbed against the clean and infected them as well. Moreover, maturities were highly variable, which is why I say that you couldn't just start picking and go from one vineyard to the next like you basically could in 2005. No, you had to pick one part of a vineyard and then stop if some rows were less ripe, wait a few days and then come back. Even with all the waiting that we did to obtain the highest phenolic ripeness that we could, August was just too cool to have really high ripeness levels. Thus we decided to dial back the extraction somewhat. This isn't to say that the '06s are soft, just that we didn't push the extraction and made what I would call balanced and normally structured wines. By contrast, the 2005s are big and robust wines with very firm tannic spines but that approach would have worked less well in 2006." - Burghound
Wines Offered
Domaine Roblet-Monnot Auxey Duresses 1er Cru Le Val 2005 - WA (88-90) points, BH 89-90 points BUY »
Domaine Roblet-Monnot Bourgogne Vieilles Vignes 2005 - WA (88-89) points, BH 87 points BUY »
Domaine Roblet-Monnot Volnay 1er Cru Brouillards 2005 - WS 91 points, WA 92 points, BH 89 points BUY »
Domaine Roblet-Monnot Volnay 1er Cru Santenots 2005 - WS 91 points, WA 91+ points, BH 89 points BUY »
Domaine Roblet-Monnot Volnay 1er Cru Taillepieds 2005 - WA 95 points, BH 91 points BUY »
Domaine Roblet-Monnot Volnay Saint Francois 2005 - WS 90 points, WA (92-93) points, BH 88-91 points BUY »
Domaine Roblet-Monnot Volnay Saint Francois 2006 - WS 89 points, BH 86-89 points BUY »
