Robert Ampeau & Fils Savigny les Beaune 2002 22BDX 30% Merlot

30% Merlot

this wine opens up early and shows its complex layers that make it enjoyable sipping on its own or paired with a truffled pasta carbonara

throws Trousseau into the blend instead

sweet tropical fruit and well integrated

The 1996 vintage is now thirty years old and squarely in mature territory

Robert Ampeau & Fils Savigny les Beaune 2002 22BDX 30% MerlotDomaine 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