The damage from the frost in 2016 was catastrophic in Savigny-les-Beaune. Recognizing how little wine was produced in 2016, the following autumn I skipped my usual tastings at producers from that village. However, when I visited in 2018, after we tasted the 2017s, Vincent Guillemot was kind enough to offer to open some 2016s for me.
No new oak was used in the vintage, only one-year and two-year old barrels. The wines will be sold only in export markets. (Continue reading here.)