Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
From lieux-dits Grand Poirier and Grasse Têtes comes Trapet's 2018 Marsannay, a nicely structured wine that offers up aromas of raspberries, cherries, raw cocoa and forest floor. Medium to full-bodied, lively and precise, it's framed by fine, powdery tannins and succulent acids.
Barrel Sample: 89-91 -
Jasper Morris
Racked preparatory to bottling. Last to be picked. 60% Grasses Tetes which is a candidate for 1er cru classification and 40% which will remain village. Plenty of energy here, not quite as ripe as the Côte de Nuits Villages. Savoury tension at the back, a wine which will blossom in the bottle. Fine balanced aftertaste.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Perched up in the northernmost position in the Côte de Nuits, Marsannay is the only appellation village of Burgundy to produce classified wines of all three colors: red, white— and rosé. The official Rosé de Marsannay earned its high reputation in the early 1900s.
Its reds, made of Pinot Noir, burst with red and black fruit and are consistently long on the palate. Chardonnays from Marsannay are charming, floral and full of citrus fruit and mineral. Top Marsannay vineyards include Clos du Roy and Les Longeroies.