Jacques Boissenot & his son, Eric:
‘Our philosophy is difficult to explain but it’s first of all to understand the cru. I need two years to understand a new property. You must capture what there is in that cru, its terroir, its expression, its faults and qualities, and then handle it delicately, to guide it to its most beautiful expression. We keep stressing finesse rather than power. We concentrate on the quality of the tannins. Sometimes you can accentuate the faults by having too low a yield; balanced vines are more important.‘
(If this isn't poetry, I don't know what is.)
*who knows: in a while some of them could be behind the wine served at the First New Symposium that was announced at the Last One.
