Quarts de Chaume 2023

The 2023 vintage of Quarts de Chaume, rated 3.7/5, stands out as Very Good, despite a particularly challenging year. A wet spring allowed healthy vine growth, but hopes for sweet wines were dashed by an unstable summer. A heat spike in early September followed by rainfall disrupted ripening: the vines, under stress, absorbed the water without resuming normal function. As a result, noble rot—crucial for these renowned sweet wines—was unreliable and often overtaken by sour rot. Harvesting required painstaking grape-by-grape sorting.