"After a terrible month of August, the good weather and the sun came back in September preparing a very good vintage. Thanks notably to lower rainfall in Chablis than in the rest of Burgundy, the sanitary state of the crop was perfect and the maturity rather early.
In Rully, we have began harvesting on Monday 18th of September with a team about fifteen pickers.The hail falled at mid-August unfortunaltely caused some damages. So we have invested in a sorting table which was very usefull to keep only the best grapes. On the whites, we have eliminated about 20% of the volume. For the reds, we have reached 40%. This reason comes from the maceration: because of the prolonged contact between the juice and the solids of the grapes, the quality of the crop you put in the tank must be perfect.For Chablis, the harvest began on Wednesday 20th of September with a perfect sanitary state, very good potential alcohol content and acidities closed to the ones we have had last year. So, very logically, the vintage 2006 should be directly in line with the 2005!"
About Me
- Alan Uchrinscko
- Following education at the University of Chicago, Alan quickly found a home at New York's Burgundy Wine Company, explaining the complicated world of Burgundy to customers from around the world. He later became Assistant Vice-President of Christie’s North American Wine Department giving him further access to the world’s finest and rarest wines. After returning home to Western Pennsylvania, Alan became sommelier at Mio Kitchen & Wine Bar in Aspinwall to much acclaim and then joined Nemacolin Woodlands Resort as Sommelier at the AAA Five-Daimond, Mobil Five -Star award-winning Lautrec Restaurant. He was quickly promoted to Wine & Spirits Manager for the entire resort and directed the largest wine cellar in the state of Pennsylvania. He has hosted countless tastings and seminars for institutions as varied as the New York Stock Exchange, Columbia University Law School, and Allegheny General Hospital and was described by the New York Times as “…an enthusiastic, plain-spoken fellow who talks about wine the way a Knicks fan talks about basketball…” For the past several years he has been working on a comprehensive guide to the wines of Chablis & the Yonne Valley.