- 85+ Year Old Vines
- Micro Yields of 20 hl/ha
- Remarkable Finesse - Only From the Best Sites in the Best Years
2015 Vincent Ledy Savigny Les Beaune
- Gorgeous Nose of Dense, Stoney, Mineral Dark Berry and Mid Season Cherry Fruits
- Incredibly Muscular and Dense
- Extraordinary Body and Intensity with Sappy Sweetness
- Can Age for 20 Years
Tasting with Vincent Ledy is a wonderful experience. He is like a man out of time in a way. A true poet. He is uncompromising in everything he does and all the wines he makes. He is a true artist and is not making wines of fashion that can be drunk on release. He really has one head in the vineyard, one head in the cellar and one head in the clouds. He is such a purist. It's so refreshing and awesome to see. I brought a friend in the wine business with me and he was so enamored by Vincent and his wines he almost made a deal on the spot. This trip he told me people drink his wines too young and don't understand them as a result. I agreed as his 11s are smokeshows now. Even some minor 12s like his Bourgone Hautes Cotes is starting to show well. He also told he his 13'a are showing well. So I asked if I could sell these wines. He said he had no 10s 11s 12s or 13s he could sell me now! He was thinking of suggested drinking windows on the back of the wine a few years ago but it never happened. These are masterful classical styled Burgundies that are raised in old oak. Like 8-10 year old barrels. They all need time. Lots of it. He won't make wine any other way but when they are old, in my limited experience the fireworks really really start to show. These are extraordinary wines that reek of place, have unreal deep swaths of rich fruit and really give off that stoney essence. They are uncompromising Burgundies. I love that.The 2015 Vintage at Ledy
Today is a great day in the history of Fass Selections and Vincent Ledy in that we get to finally offer his utterly magnificent 2015s. But make no mistake, these are for the cellar. The amount of sheer material in his 15s is breathtaking and honestly I've tasted them 3 times now and I do think that this last time they were closing down. But they are a big step up for Vincent. They are dense, stoney and structured wines with exhilarating cores of fruit and earth. I love 2015. A true Pinot lover's vintage. I've really grown to love 15 much more now than I initially did. It really worked well for some of my more not so fruit forward growers like Ledy, Garaudet, and Pierrick Bouley.
Today let's start with his top wine.
The 2015 Vincent Ledy Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru "Les Porrets St. Georges" Vieilles Vignes for $109.99 a bottle on a 3-pack. It's probably next to the Poisot Romanee St. Vivant the best Red Burgundy I sell. This is from 85+ year old vines. Yields for this wine were only 20 hl/ha versus an average of 37 for NSG Premier Crus. This wine is a love letter and a tour de force in winemaking. It is a work of remarkable genius.
The nose. Super fragrant nose. Like the best fragrance you can imagine. 13 was darker and had lower
yields and more brooding. 14 had more lift to it and is a bit more evenly fruited between black, blue and red. 15 is more ethereal with deep rich fruit and pungent stoniness that makes it insanely distinct. It also has terrific crunch with all that rich 2015 fruit. Mashed black flowers and tons of stoney minerality. So floral. Violets, roses, just beguiling. But all of this is on a bed of stone. Limestone. There is also a confectionary aroma as well that envelops the black cherries and blackberries. Big sappy blackberries and black cherries. But there is also a pungent almost lurid red fruit quality that intermingles as well. I also get a iron/graphite mineral/ore component. The aromas are just off the charts. The wine is flat out brilliant. It is so deep. But what the 15 has that the 14 and 13 just fall short of is the remarkable finesse that only comes from the best sites in the best years. This is the most finesse I've ever had in a young Ledy and it will only grows more elegant with time. For something so big it floats. I once compared Ledy's style to the great Henri Gouges and this is the wine that made me think Gouges as soon as I smelled it. Like black cherries in pastelle clay. This is one of the most expensive direct wines I offer, but I offer it because there is nothing like it in Burgundy or Nuits St. Georges. The wine is an elixir in that the care and love that Vincent puts into it is second to none. You can taste it. The wine is always opening and changing. You see Vincent's artistry here as he uses no new barrels in this wine and the character of the great 1er Cru site "Les Porrets Saint-Georges" shines through. This is naked Burgundy at its finest.
The palate has amazing richness and density and the power and density of the site and the old vine sap are apparent in spades. Yet it is so crisp and fresh which is remarkable for a 2015. The inner mouth aromas are some of the best I've ever encountered. It takes over every nook and cranny of your mouth like nothing I've ever had. It's almost like an invasive species of Pinot Noir in your mouth. The tannins are firm and the energy on the palate is second to none. The freshness and acid combined with the density, length and richness are some of the best I've encountered. This is a holy crap OMG wine. It's a wine I hope to cellar every vintage. And i have. I opened one 12 to see how it made the trip across the ocean. This wine needs extensive cellaring. With the 2015 as in the 2014 vintage Vincent made this wine into two cuvees, separating the young vines and old vines.
Up next I've got something that is one of the best knock em sock em values of the 2015 vintage. The 2015 Vincent Ledy Savigny Les Beaune. Below his two NSG cuvees this is the king at Ledy and one of the finest Savignys one can have dollar for dollar. I love this wine. It's serious Savigny. Forget that it's not a 1er Cru. This is a serious wine and can compete with so many 1er Crus. It can be had for $35.99 a bottle on a 4-Pack. Don't be deceived by the low price this is chock full of amazing Pinosity and Savigny character for days in that uncompromising Ledy style which he has perfected. I really like the slightly warmer vintages here. His 12s and 15s are great great vintages for Ledy. I can hands down say this is my favorite village SLB out there, and as I said it really acts like many a 1er Cru. Through 3 tiers, this wine would cost $50 and it would be well worth it - it's best in class. Ledy's 2015 Savigny has a gorgeous nose of stoney, mineral dark berry fruits and big, dense ripe mid season cherry fruits; beautiful aromas that have serious gusto. Floral and spicey as well with cool raspberry as well. It's very complex but as a 10 can recently attest this gets unreal with age. The aromas are symphonic. Big, and I mean big palate, that needs 2-3-4-5 hours to aerate, but once it does you have a wine that is like, "What if Henri Gouges made Savigny Les Beaune?" Incredible sweet/sweet furor. It is incredibly muscular and dense with extraordinary body and intensity with sappy sweetness. The fruit is dense and vivid like nothing else but will take 4-6 years to truly sing. It needs it. Chewy and complex but so much more to show. The balance of all the parts is something to behold. This is exquisite wine with some serious raw power. The concentration, raw power, just this short of sweet earthy fruit and a haunting confectionary quality make this an astonishing wine. Buy as much as you can as it won't be enough. This can age 20 years.
2015 Vincent Ledy Nuits St Georges 1er Cru "Les Porrets St. Georges - Vieilles Vignes" - $114.99 ($329.97 3-pack) (VERY LIMITED)
2015 Vincent Ledy Savigny Les Beaune - $37.99 ($143.96 4-pack) (LIMITED)
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