1962 Leroy Musigny

In 1962 The Beatles were at the top of the Billboard Charts with " Love Me Do" and Kruschev & JFK were going head-to-head in the Cuban Missile Crisis. All the while in Burgundy a certain magic was happening, which conjured up one of the finest Burgundies we have ever tasted at Graileys - the 1962 Leroy Musigny.

Lalou Bize-Leroy was born into wine, her family's negociant business long one of the greatest sources of Burgundy dating back to the mid-19th century. She joined her father in 1955 and became president in 1971, pushing the quality of the wines even further into greatness. Starting in 1868, François Leroy began his negociant house in Auxey-Duresses, though it was a century later that Lalou would join and bring the quality and fame into a new echelon. With the family's purchase of half the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti in 1942, the Leroy family gained further access to some of the greatest vineyards in all of Burgundy.

1962 Leroy Musigny - "Almost a fine polished copper rather than ruby or garnet; the nose was wild, spicy, lifted, ethereal and gorgeous, exquisite in fact; what was so impressive on the palate was the delicacy, this was gossamer light, so beautifully scented with small wild red berries, and perfume, and complexity… it was airy, one of those wines that pulls off the paradox of so much intensity of mouth-filling, never-ending scent, with the sort of weightlessness that doesn’t quite appear to begin or end on the palate, it just appears like perfume atomised." (100) FWE