Robert Ampeau & Fils Savigny les Beaune 2002 PURYEAR cracker-like malt body and a

cracker-like malt body and a tantalizingly bitter finish

for the most part without malolactic fermentation

A mix of twenty-nine herbs

The wine balances full body with aromatic complexity

Robert Ampeau & Fils Savigny les Beaune 2002 PURYEAR cracker-like malt body and aDomaine Robert Ampeau has one of the strangest business models in Burgundy: they will not sell you the wine until they think it is ready. Bottles go into the family's famously cold Meursault cellars and simply stay there, for decades, until someone decides the moment has come then they get inspected, cleaned up, labeled and released. Which is why a red from the 2002 vintage is showing up now, with more than twenty years of quiet aging already behind