1997: Twenty Years On
Written: July 2017
Every year growers gather at my neighbour’s in Burgundy in June and bring with them bottles or magnums (M) of the 10 year old and, in a few cases, the 20 year old, vintage. So this year we had sixteen 1997s and around 100 2007s to taste. An unheralded vintage in Burgundy, partly because the…