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“We have found out that it is the viticulture that is critical, and once you have good grapes you can make good wine,” he told the drinks business during a tasting of the domaine’s wines in London on Monday this week.
Looking back, he said that the widespread and heavy-handed use of chemical fertilisers in Burgundy during the 80s had produced slightly “diluted” wines, which was then followed by a stylistic swing to highly extracted Pinot Noirs from the Côte d’Or in the 90s.
Today, however, a combination of attentive approaches in the vineyard, particularly biodynamic farming techniques, along with gentle winemaking practices, is yielding wines of quality.
As a consequence, Devauges stated, “We are reaching a golden age”.....