Perrot-Minot – 2020

27.10.2022billn

Christophe Perrot-Minot 2022Tasted in Morey St.Denis with Christophe Perrot-Minot, 07 June 2022.

Domaine Perrot-Minot
54, Route des Grands Crus
21220 Morey-Saint-Denis
Tel: +33 3 80 34 32 51
www.perrot-minot.com
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Christophe on 2020:
Practically all the 2020s are bottled – the big two will be done in about 10 days. It’s small volume harvest here – the mix of old vines and evaporation due to the heat brought 85 barrels – half that of 2017 when we did a green harvest! All the 2020s that I plan to sell this year are already sold – I’m holding some back to sell with my 2021s as in this vintage I have less than one-third of the volume of 2017. Harvesting started here on the 27th August.

The wines…

I found the 2019s great here, yet 2019 could easily be described as for earlier drinking by comparison to these. Christophe thinks that the 2020s have even more ageing potential but given the balance of both I don’t expect much difference! Great wines again in 2020 – it was an honour to taste them!

It was planned that I should return about three weeks later to taste the Chambertin and Bèze, once bottled. In the end we didn’t find a date to get together…

2020 Morey St.Denis En la Rue de Vergy
From just above the Clos de Tart, with fine, poor soil and lots of rock. 20% new oak – the rest 1-2 years old – half with whole clusters and filtration.
Complex, a spiced depth of dark-fruited aroma – no excess. I love the shape of this in the mouth – energetic, dark-fruited the spice of the nose – but such clarity in this dark fruit flavour too – I’d keep it 5 years before returning – but this could be great wine – for a villages.
2020 Chambolle-Musigny ‘Orveaux des Bussières
40% 1er Combe d’Orveaux the rest is Bussières, this higher part of Orveaux is stonier – it’s the vines next to Prieur’s Musigny that go into the separate Orveaux bottling – the grapes for this bottling are mixed for the fermentation.
A more vertical nose, less overt spice, redder fruit and with more perfume too. Extra fresh, more incisive, a small velour from the tannin but with dryness. Super energy and a bit more intensity – but still ultra-clean and pure – such impressive wine.

2020 Gevrey-Chambertin ‘Justice de Seuvrées
A faint touch of smoky oak, darker, deeper fruit – less open than the previous two wines. Wide, so immersive, growing in intensity, saline edged flavour then a firework of energy in the finish with some bitters and length, length, length…

Up to 30% new oak for the 1ers and GCs…

2020 Morey St.Denis 1er La Riotte
More open, wider shape again, here with extra freshness and clarity to the small red berry fruit. A little impression of oak – like many – but these wines will suck it up. Again a little velour but there’s no grain to these tannins. Lip-smacking intensity and plenty of finishing bitters here like from agrumes in a white. Hyper impressive…

2020 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Les Fuées
Here the nose changes to something rounder, wild red fruits and a cushion of something floral. Here is fluidity and clarity – a direct wine, a structural wine – a great wine – also the first wine where the oak is invisible!
2020 Nuits St.Georges 1er La Richemone Cuvée Ultra
A simply gorgeous nose – modestly cushioned but with ultra-clarity to the darker, fresher, red fruit – yes! Again – ultra-fluid, ultra-clarity – aptly named ultra wine. Bravo! Less energetic finishing than the previous wine but no less long.
2020 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Combe d’Orveaux
Here the florals and fruit are a little more plump, slowly adding a little structure. Structural wine but nothing hard to be found – just a hint more strict – the texture is super, a subtle, über-fine-grained, tannin – then so juicy finishing width of mineral-supported flavour. Great finishing wine – that’s the best finish yet!
2020 Chapelle-Chambertin
North in Gemeaux – 90-year-old vines mainly delivering millerandes – ‘I always avoid pigeage here as the concentration is so strong. It’s always better to be early rather than late picking here – or rather don’t be late as like Griotte it can compote and become a little chocolatey’
Some salinity to this nose, and engaging depth too – perhaps more interesting than the d’Orveau, less than the Richemone – but it’s improving in the glass! Fuller is my first impression, framed with tiny-grained tannin – a beautiful flavour only a little less accessible than the previous two. Another hauntingly pretty finishing flavour – flower accented by some salinity. The middle flavours and shape say that you should wait longer than the others – as it should be. Still, another great wine…
2020 Charmes-Chambertin
‘From right at the top – you won’t find higher – and directly across the road from one of the parcels of Rousseau’s Chambertin – bottled only 2 weeks prior
Starting in a much more airy style than the others – a core of red fruit. Incisive then wide, a wine that grows in both intensity and width – the power not far behind either – Mineral wine, also for keeping – ‘There’s a resonance, an echo of the Chambertin that it faces’ structurally, without a doubt – a great Charmes.
2020 Mazoyères-Chambertin
More open and higher toned – filling the glass – this is very complex, some cherry stones in this too. Another wine with structure but this is more mouth-filling versus the width of the Charmes – we have all directions here. Beautiful texture and almost 1-millimetre of cushion here too. More generous and large in the finish.

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