Allen Meadows's Burgendy reference :

"The always thoughtful enologist François Millet called 2007 a "vintage with a curious growing season. We had an extremely hot April, in fact the warmest April ever, followed by a terrible summer. Despite the cool and wet weather, we had a vegetative cycle that was at least 3 weeks in advance of 2003! Normally, when you take two extremes, it doesn't work very well. But in the end, in 2007 it worked. It was almost as though we had a normal growing season other than the early picking date. We began on September 1st and brought in very ripe fruit with potential alcohols of between 12.5 and 13%.

There was some sorting required though most of that was for botrytis. As to the wines, they are hyper classic, very frank and direct with beautiful transparency to the underlying terroir. There is great freshness to the fruit that exhibits a juxtaposition of elements that range from jam to citrus along with the classic raspberry. To me, 2007 is unique as I just can't think of another vintage which it resembles." As the scores and comments confirm, I was exceptionally impressed by the in-bottle '06s, especially the Chambolle 1er, which is as good a vintage for this wine since they first released it in 1995."