An uneven year for Red Burgundy due to the vagaries of the weather throughout the growing season. Spring was late and very wet and then hailstorms hit parts of the Côte d`Or during July. August was very warm and growers` expectations at the outset of September were high. The heavens then opened and it rained solidly for the first 2 weeks of September. Rot became a serious hazard and was accentuated by hot weather at the end of September.

The best producers made a rigorous selection at harvest- time and managed to eliminate rot from from their cuvées. Some of the wines turned out to be excessively tannic and never fully came round to fruition. However, top estates, such as Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, have produced marvellous wines which display very good depth of fruit and are complex and harmonious.