Perrot-Minot er et af de sikreste kort i hele Bourgogne, og i de senere år har der været tale om rene triumfer lige fra det generiske åbningsnummer af en Bourgogne forbi de forskellige Lieu-Dits og Premier Cru op til de 6 Grand Crus fra selve Chambertin skråningen, som Domaine Perrot-Minot nu også begaver vinens verden med.
Sammen med lanceringen af 2017-årgangen fulgte nye labels og en redefinering af porteføljen. Således mistede denne vin fra 0,5 ha. på den lille fine Premier Cru La Riotte tillægsbenævnelsen Vieilles Vignes selvom der er tale om de samme efterhånden i gennemsnit 60 år gamle vinstokke helt oppe ved Route des Grands Crus vis a vis Les Chambiots og Clos-St-Denis.
Druerne er naturligvis håndhøstede, og efter den obligatoriske soignering og sortering og et meget tidskrævende manuelt klippearbejde igen muligt at arbejde med omkring 50% hele druer inklusive den del af stilkene, som druerne er fæstet til. Der blev arbejdet med en såkaldt kold maceration ved 14 grader i rustfrit stål i en uges tid inden temperaturen fik lov til at stige, og den egentlige gæring gik i gang uden fremmede gærstammer og med kun meget få omrøringer for at reducere risikoen for alt for markante tanniner.
Efter gæringen fik vinen lov til at sætte sig (bundfælde) i nogle dage inden den blev fyldt på fade fra Tronçais og Bertrange leveret af Remond i Ladoix-Serrigny (kun 20% nye i 2020). Her modnede den i 16 måneder uden omstikninger og med kun enkelte omrøringer inden den endelige cuvée blev sammenstukket og tappet på flaske uden klaring eller filtrering i det sene forår 2022.
Christophe Perrot-Minot havde som sædvanlig besøg af bourgogneeksperten Allen Meadows i januar (2022), og inden smagningen kom Christophe med denne evaluering af 2020 årgangen til den håndholdte mobiloptager:
"2020 is, much like 2019 in certain respects, an excellent but relatively tiny vintage as my net yields came in between 18 and 20 hl/ha versus the 22 hl/ha I realized in 2019. The growing season was again very hot and dry and while we didn't have much disease pressure, the flowering did not go especially well and thus there was a lot of shatter and a high incidence of shot berries. The summer was even drier than that of 2019 and there were some berries that were either sunburned or over ripe that had to eliminated. We picked very fast between the 27th of August and the 4th of September. Despite the heat and small quantities, potential alcohols were reasonable as the highest that I had came in at 13.7%. I used between 40 and 50% whole clusters and employed no more than 20% new wood for the élevage. While the vinifications were problem-free, the challenge was to avoid over extracting as the skins were both thick and ripe and thus the extractions happened almost by themselves. One day too many of cuvaison and it would have been easy to have excessively tannic wines. I took care to properly aerate the musts in order to help the yeasts do their job in an expeditious manner and thus the cuvaisons finished as they should have. Regarding the wines, while I liked my 2019s, I like my 2020s even better as they have excellent energy and even better transparency plus they have everything they need to age for basically as long as anyone would want to cellar them."
Efterfølgende konkludere en begejstret Allen Meadows: "I agree with Perrot-Minot because even though I was very impressed with his 2019s, his 2020s are quite simply terrific and should be on your shopping lists."
Vinen er tappet med kvalitetspropper og hver enkelt flaske forsynes til sidst med en "logstrip", der gør det muligt at indhente oplysninger om hver enkelt flaskes videre færd på internettet. (http://www.prooftag.com/)
