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New Producer: Yannick Meckert!

Yannick Meckert!
<p>We've been bringing in Yannick Meckert's wines for almost a year now but just getting around to writing about him. </p>
<p><a href="https://louisdressner.com/producers/yannick%20meckert">It's a whole lot to read and fascinating stuff! </a></p>
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Tips For Navigating the Website.

How to navigate the website.
<p><u><strong>Desktop vs Mobile:</strong></u></p>
<p>We know people use their phones a lot, so we've worked hard on ensuring the site functions well on mobile devices. Having said that, we recommend using a laptop/desktop to optimally peruse our content. </p>
<p><u><strong>Glossary:</strong></u></p>
<p>At its core, this has always been a website written for wine professionals *attempting* to glean information on the wines we import - and hopefully see a picture of the vigneron's dog. Since the jargon can be so technical, we've added an <glossary term="glossary" title="1427">interactive glossary</glossary> to the text for those unfamiliar with the baffllingly complex world of wine terminology. Even if you're a seasoned pro, you might learn a thing or two. And if you'd rather read the content without the glossary, simply head to the main menu bar and turn it off. </p>
<p> "<u><strong>Our Wines" Section: </strong></u></p>
<p>In the "Our Wines" section, we've offered a variety of filter categories for you to explore and discover all the cuvées we import. These filters can be combined together to narrow down results. If you hit a wall with no results, simply erase one of the filters or clear all filters. </p>
<p><u><strong>Technical Information For Each Wine:</strong></u></p>
<p>78% of the wines we import have extremely detailed technical information when clicked on, dare I say the most technical anywhere on the internet. Half of these are probably woefully outdated.</p>
<p><u><strong>Search:</strong></u></p>
<p>If you know what producer or wine you are searching for, the search should quickly autofill what you need. Go ahead, give it a whirl. You can also hit enter after searching and skup the autofill.</p>
<p><strong><u>Hyperlinks/PDFs:</u></strong></p>
<p>Every single piece of content on the website has its own hyperlink. This means you can easily share a specific producer page, article, wine or filter combination with anyone. You can also save or print out PDF's bt clicking the PDF icon.</p>
<p><u><strong>Copy/Paste:</strong></u></p>
<p>Due to the website's design, if you need to copy/paste anything, the glossary needs to be turned off for the text to paste correctly. We recommend using the PDF feature instead. </p>
<p>Also, if you are going to straight up use our writing verbatim, PLEASE credit us when doing so. Seems obvious but we see it happen all the time. </p>
<p><u><strong>A Shit-Ton of Written Content:</strong></u></p>
<p>The articles themselves can often be very long, and for this reason we developed a Propriety Pop Up System™ where you can easily scroll through various articles/wines and "pop out" to efficiently look at the rest of the content.</p>
<p>We've tried our best to pack as many dog pictures as possible in there, but the digital ink has been spilled: the cumulation of decades' worth of writings from Joe, Denyse, Kevin and Jules is here for you to read. A huge part of the work with this new website was to find better ways to condense and extract essential information you need without getting lost in all that BORING text. </p>
<p>We still think you should check it out. Don't worry, there are plenty of pictures. And you might even find the writing interesting. Or funny. Or both. </p>
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EXPLORE

Rain, Rain, Rain At Bernard Baudry in 2024
<p>2024 was marked by a record amount of rainfall in France and Chinon was not spared. After avoiding any issues with frost, we were under intense mildew pressure from early May through mid-August. We spent all Spring and Summer fighting against this illness, which gnawed at the leaves and many grapes in certain parcels. </p>
<p>We were hoping for an Indian summer that never came: September was just as rainy and forced us to push back our harvest start date to October. We then hoped that this extra time would give the grapes more time to concentrate in sugars but this remained fairly limited. </p>
<p>Despite the weather conditions, the Cabernet Franc resisted fairly well but mildew still severely reduced our crop to about 30hl/h. With the Chenin, itself a thin-skinned variety, we had to find very short windows to pick so that the grapes not be diluted from water. </p>
<p>The 2024 reds have nice color and structure, clocking in between 11.5 and 12.5 and without any agressive green notes. It's a little early to tell, but 2024 seems very promising and already superior to 2023, another vintage marked by heavy rain. </p>

1/4 of a Crop for Clos du Tue-Boeuf in 2024
<p>Here is a quick recap of this "exceptional" vintage.</p>
<p>-A lot of cumulative rainfall in the 2023/2024 winter that was so intense it did not permit us to finish planting our cover crops. The ones we did plant had to get ripped out as they had rotted in the soil. </p>
<p>- We had a spring frost in mid-April that destroyed between 1/4 to 1/3rd of the buds depending on the parcels.</p>
<p>-Over 300mm of rain in May and June which led to a simultaneous coulure and agressive attack of mildew on the buds. Even though coulure seemed to be responsible for the worst of the damage, mildew continued destroying buds all the way to veraison in mid-August. In total we did 14 treatments, four of which were on foot because the tractors couldn't get into the vines. </p>
<p>-We had a two week break with no rain in the summer but it started up again in late August and continued through September. This led to grey rot during harvest, forcing us to leave many bunches on the floor during harvest. It also forced us to finish our harvest as quickly as possible in order to lose the minimum amount of grapes, which were already on the verge of dilution. It is the first time in our history that we did a double pass selection of the grapes, first in the vines and again in the cellar. </p>
<p>In the end we brought in about 1/4 of a crop partially compensated by purchased fruit since our cellar was less than half full. The wines are extremely light (from 10 to 12.5%) but still precise and free of flaws. The only satisfaction of this vintage was the vinifications, which went very smoothly thanks to very high acidities and low alcoholic potential. It was also a first for us: the lowest levels of volatile acidity in the history of the estate!</p>