FRANCOIS LUMPP 2021 GIVRY A VIGNE ROUGE 1ER CRU

François Lumpp’s wines can compete with the very best of Burgundy. They are the finest wines being produced today in Givry, a sleepy Côte Chalonnaise outpost historically reputed for its Pinot Noir, thanks to its abundant limestone and iron-rich clay soils. Nobody has done more than François to remind the world of this appellation’s potential, and now he has passed the torch to his daughter Anne-Cécile and his son Pierre. The Lumpp style is on full display with this beauty: open-knit, fruit-forward, silky, and seductive Pinot Noir beckons. This vineyard always supplies a solid architecture of structural support, and this vintage brings the welcome acidity of blood orange and pêche de vigne as well. —Dixon Brooke, Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant