2005 Morot Beaune Marconnets

Allen Meadows, Burghound, April 2007.(a .67 ha parcel of 50+ year old vines). A distinctly cool and reserved nose of ripe dark berry fruit mixed with ample warm earth notes merges into rich, full and beautifully precise middle weight flavors that are quite firmly structured on the impressively complex finish. Like the other just bottled cuvées, this is presently slightly dry but it should eat the SO2 quickly. 90 points

Geoffroy Choppin de Janvry said that 2005 gave a “positively superb quality of fruit, particularly in the sense of fruit/acid/tannin balance. Moreover, the crop was so clean that it was almost not worth the trouble to bother sorting. .... When you have fruit this good with such ripe structural elements, the vinification is usually easy and so it was with 2005 too. For me, as good as 1999 is, 2005 is better still.” M. de Janvry was not boasting about the fruit quality because it is reflected in the quality of resulting wines and I heartily recommend these ‘05s to you.
Allen Meadows, Burghound, April 2007.