Leroy Le Musigny Grand Cru 1990 750ml

Burghound.com/ Tasted: Oct 21, 2003
Wonderfully complex nose of spice, still completely primary black fruit all wrapped in ripe but not roasted earth notes. The massive flavors are big, robust and amazingly concentrated with incredible extract and even though there is so much extract, it is barely up to the task of buffering the prominent, indeed almost agressive structure. The stupendously long finish just explodes on the palate and arrives with a wonderful rush. In short, the '90 Musigny is a wine of contrasts and while it's an utterly fantastic momument to sheer scale and power, it's not entirely clear that it will ever completely mellow out. That said, to the extent that longevity is important, this will easily last 50 years, perhaps longer; what it will be when it gets there is another question.

When Lalou Bize-Leroy took over her father's negociant business in 1964, she became one of the first women to head an important firm in Burgundy. As co-director for many years, she was also a central influence at D.R.C. She still owns one quarter of the domaine.
What distinguishes Lalou Bize-Leroy from her peers? Her relentless pursuit if fine wines which are the direct expressions of their terroir. With courage, she makes wine from extremely low yields (producing crops one fourth the size of her neighbors) and bottles without fining or filtration. In addition, at Domaine Leroy, they have been cultivating their vines under biodynamic conditions since 1989. This means that Leroy wines are free of all chemical treatments, weed killers, pesticides, fungicides, insecticides and artificial fertilizers. Instead, Leroy has stepped back in time and use cosmic rhythms to ensure correct soil tilling and recuperation as well as effective vine care through all phases of the year's cycle.

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