Robert Ampeau & Fils Savigny les Beaune 2002 MH This is a serious bottling

This is a serious bottling made in tiny quantities

and peppery spice

Bourgogne at its most mineral-driven and alive

Matured in ex-Bourbon American oak casks

Robert Ampeau & Fils Savigny les Beaune 2002 MH This is a serious bottlingDomaine Robert Ampeau has one of the strangest business models in Burgundy: they will not sell you the wine until they think it is ready. Bottles go into the family's famously cold Meursault cellars and simply stay there, for decades, until someone decides the moment has come then they get inspected, cleaned up, labeled and released. Which is why a red from the 2002 vintage is showing up now, with more than twenty years of quiet aging already behind