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The 2017 vintage will be remembered as a year of contrasts, marked by a historic frost episode but also by outstanding quality in the terroirs that were spared. The northern Rhône Valley leads the year: the summer drought concentrated a deep and smoky Syrah, of which Guigal La Landonne 2017 offers the most accomplished expression. On the right bank of Bordeaux, the Pomerol plateau, spared by the frost, stands as one of the highlights of the vintage with Petrus 2017. The white wines of Burgundy, the sweet wines of Alsace, and the reds of the Languedoc round out a year that must be read terroir by terroir. To place 2017 among recent vintages, refer to the SoDivin Vintage Guide. 

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Le millésime 2017 est-il une bonne année pour le vin ?

Oui, mais c’est un millésime contrasté. Le gel du printemps a réduit les rendements dans de nombreuses régions, mais les terroirs épargnés ont produit des vins 2017 précis, équilibrés, élégants et aromatiques. Les plus grandes réussites se trouvent en Rhône 2017, Bourgogne 2017, Pomerol 2017, Saint-Émilion 2017, Pessac-Léognan 2017, ainsi que dans les vins blancs de Loire et d’Alsace.

Le millésime 2017 est-il un bon millésime pour Bordeaux ?

Oui, mais de manière sélective.

Les propriétés épargnées par le gel ont produit des vins d’une grande finesse : Pomerol 2017, Saint-Émilion 2017, Pauillac 2017, Saint-Julien 2017, Margaux 2017.

Le style est plus frais et plus classique que 2015 ou 2016, avec des tanins souples et un fruit pur.

Les Sauternes 2017 sont particulièrement réussis, d’une grande pureté aromatique.

Les vins 2017 sont-ils encore bons à boire aujourd’hui ?

Oui. La majorité des vins 2017 sont déjà ouverts, accessibles et très plaisants, notamment :

Bordeaux rouges : à parfaite maturité aujourd'hui

Bourgogne rouges : très abordables, déjà expressifs

Bourgogne blancs : tension et éclat superbes

Rhône 2017 : structure solide, mais déjà délicieux

Alsace / Loire 2017 : fraîcheur et précision

Les grands vins 2017 ont encore 10 à 30 ans de potentiel selon les régions.

Vintage 2017: the year of frost, low yields and great precision in the wines

The 2017 vintage in France is first and foremost the story of a brutal spring. After a relatively mild winter and an early budbreak, a series of severe frosts at the end of April struck a large part of the vineyard, particularly in Bordeaux, the Loire, Champagne and certain areas of Burgundy. At the national level.

Once this episode had passed, the vegetative cycle nonetheless followed a rather favourable trajectory. The summer of 2017 was broadly warm, dry and free of heatwave excess, with nights cool enough to preserve acidity. In several regions — Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Rhône, Alsace — ripeness came early, making 2017 one of the fastest vintages of recent decades. The harvest, which began early, took place under predominantly dry conditions, guaranteeing an excellent state of health in the grapes.

For the taster, the 2017 vintage is characterised by an assured freshness, often moderate alcohol levels, fine tannins and a clean aromatic profile. The 2017 red wines do not seek a show of force, but rather balance and precision. 2017 is a heterogeneous vintage in terms of volume, yet highly qualitative in the great terroirs, with 2017 great wines set for a very fine evolution.

Bordeaux 2017 — Frost in the lowlands, elegance on the plateaux

In Bordeaux, 2017 is the year when altitude and drainage decided everything. The April frost ravaged entire lowland sectors, sometimes twice over, while the plateaux and gravel ridges remained out of reach. There, the vines ripened serenely to produce wines with pure fruit, fine tannins and restrained alcohol levels: a classic, fresh and easy-drinking Bordeaux, closer to the balance of bygone vintages than to recent solar years. It is a medium-term ageing vintage, to be opened earlier than 2015 or 2016.

The Pomerol plateau, spared by the frost, produced one of the year's finest wines, of rare purity and length. In Saint-Émilion, Château La Mondotte unfolds a dense and velvety substance. In the Médoc, elegance prevails: Château Brane-Cantenac embodies the floral finesse of Margaux, while the second wines of Pauillac's first growths — such as Les Forts de Latour and Carruades de Lafite — offer an accessible gateway to the great terroirs of the left bank. Among sweet wines, Sauternes and Barsac, swept by a fine wave of botrytis (noble rot), yield wines of remarkable freshness, often underestimated.

Burgundy 2017 — The year of deliverance, whites in the front line

After the devastating frost of 2016, Burgundy regained in 2017 a healthy and generous harvest, without any loss of quality. The whites are the great winners of the year: from Chablis to the Côte de Beaune, they marry the energy of a cool vintage with the charm of fine ripeness, displaying a saline tension and a precision reminiscent of the finest 2014s. The reds, for their part, are pure, juicy and transparent, built on delicate red fruit and fine tannins, in a classic and easy-drinking style.

In Chassagne-Montrachet, Domaine Ramonet brings chardonnay grand cru to a rare balance between richness and minerality. In the Côte de Nuits, Domaine Georges Roumier produces Bonnes-Mares of remarkable finesse and depth, while Anne Gros crafts an Échezeaux of delicate lacework and Arnoux-Lachaux confirms its rising stature in Vosne-Romanée. In the Hautes-Côtes, Denis Carré offers an accessible and sincere entry point into the vintage.

Northern Rhône Valley 2017 — Hillside syrah, concentrated by drought

The northern Rhône is the great success story of 2017. Perched on their steep hillsides, the vineyards of Côte-Rôtie, Condrieu and Hermitage escaped the frost, then benefited from a very hot and dry summer. The drought caused yields to plummet but concentrated the grapes: the syrah here is ripe, dense and deep, carried by characteristic black fruit and a smoky note. The finest wines combine this solar substance with supple tannins and remarkable length. These are wines accessible when young, yet built for good ageing.

On the Côte Brune, Domaine Jamet produces a Côte-Rôtie of peppery finesse and exemplary balance, while René Rostaing draws from the same hillside a dense and thoroughbred cuvée. The house of Guigal dominates the appellation with its hillside crus — La Landonne, La Mouline and La Turque — peaks of concentration and length. Christophe Pichon and Stéphane Ogier confirm the vitality of the new generation, the latter producing, with his Lancement cuvée, a syrah of brilliant fruit and fine structure. Domaine Clape extends the year southward through the northern vineyard with a taut and mineral white Saint-Péray.

Alsace 2017 — Ripe grand crus and exceptional sweet wines

Alsace too paid its tribute to the frost, with a reduced harvest but of fine ripeness. The sunshine of summer yielded ample and precise wines, and above all made possible some superb late-harvest wines and Sélections de Grains Nobles. In this vintage, the Alsatian sweet wines form the northern counterpart of the great moelleux: concentrated, pure, carried by a vibrant acidity that keeps them light and airy.

On the grand cru Moenchberg, Domaine Marc Kreydenweiss produces a dense and saline dry wine, a faithful expression of its marl-limestone terroir. And Domaine Weinbach, with its Sélection de Grains Nobles, reaches the pinnacle of the genre: a rich, luminous and taut liqueur, born from grapes concentrated by botrytis. These are rare bottles, to be reserved for lovers of great sweet wines.

Languedoc-Roussillon 2017 — The sunshine of the South, an accessible entry point

Far from the frosts of the north, the Languedoc-Roussillon experienced a sunny and dry year, marked by a scorching summer. The old vines, with their deep roots, best withstood the drought and yielded ripe, spiced and generous reds, without heaviness where altitude or proximity to the sea preserved freshness. The terroir whites, rarer, combine roundness and tension. This is a region of immediate accessibility, ideal for discovering the vintage without waiting.

On the schist terroirs of Roussillon, Domaine du Clos des Fées draws from its old vines a deep and velvety red, at once powerful and fresh. In the hills of Pézenas, Domaine Les Aurelles crafts, with its Aurel cuvées in both red and white, age-worthy wines of unexpected elegance, carried by old terroirs of rounded stones. These bottles show that in 2017, the South was able to combine richness and balance.

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