The wine in this lot has a score of 89 from Allen Meadows and the following tasting note -Alain Hudelot, and his cellar master Pierre Nawrocki, commented that 2002 is "a grand millésime of textbook quality with great colors, excellent sugars and acidities and most important of all, very good phenolic ripeness. We had less rain than any region in France and from Comblanchien to Gevrey, there were no storms at all during the harvest. The cool nights preserved the acidity and the north wind kept the rot at bay, giving us near perfect grapes. Yields were normal even though the wind caused a good deal of evaporation but even this doesn't tell the whole story as we had lots of small berries which gave us excellent dry extract to liquid ratios. Another aspect of the small berries is that they didn't crush in the pressoir and thus released their sugars slowly. As a consequence, we had very long and slow fermentations