There appears to be cautious optimism about the upcoming Burgundy 2023 en primeurs due to the strength (and size) of the vintage and producers’ desire to sell. Speaking to the drinks business about the 2023 vintage, Domaine Chanson’s export director Vincent Wallays remains optimistic about the upcoming en primeur campaign following a strong year in 2022, which saw 96% of the estate’s production sold en primeur. The team has adapted the prices from the 2023 vintage, holding steady on the white and lowering the price of the reds by 10%. It was, he says, a “very good year” for the estate, with yields of around 38hl/ha, a marked improvement on the domaine’s ten year average of around 22hl/ha, although this is “not considered massive” in comparison to some estate that saw yields of 60hl per hectare. (2024, he noted, is likely to prove “a different species”, with yields more like those in 2016 and 2021). And while good yields were important economically “what is also really important is to have density, structure, depth and complexity in the wine,” he added. “This is, for us, the sweet spot”. An encouraging sign for the upcoming campaign, he noted, lay in partner client’s depletion rates. “Do they have wine in stock?” he said. “For some markets like Japan and the US, the wine arrived in the market in late September or early October, so they are just starting to deplete the wine. In less than 45 days, the US has already
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