Dugat-Py Bourgogne Rouge Cuvee Halinard 2022

“The 2022 vintage has turned out very well indeed at Domaine Dugat-Py, delivering a crop of beautifully balanced wines that are built for the cellar. I’ve written it before, but in another warm and dry vintage, it bears repeating that this domaine’s innovative viticulture, emphasizing high, unhedged canopies and biodynamic preparations, with soils cultivated to encourage deep rooting, means the vines are better equipped to resist the heat and drought than many of their neighbors. And while low yields, old vines and small-berried massal selections mean that these are inevitably deep, concentrated and age-worthy wines, extraction isn’t pushed so far as it once was, and—as I wrote last year—Loïc Dugat-Py has also quietly reduced the percentage of new oak used here. So, I once again encourage readers to put outdated stereotypes of excessive oak and overextraction to one side and try what is being produced today, as these are bottles that number among the finest that contemporary Burgundy has to offer.”

William Kelley, Wine Advocate (01/24)