Apropos ham Morey:
"Producer note: Thomas Morey is one of Bernard Morey´s sons (Vincent is the other - see below) that has taken his share of his father´s vines to farm on his own. The split occurred in 2006 but was effective with the 2007 vintage. He has added to that inheritance and now oversees 13 ha, two-thirds of which produces whites and has an impressive 8 different Chassagne 1ers plus the prestigious Puligny 1er of La Truffière. Morey calls the 2012 vintage one that "produced lovely wines but it was anything but easy. Depending on how you count the hail storms there were either 3 or 4 of them [Morey is referring to the August 1st storm that passed through in one direction and then reversed course to hit the same vines from the other direction] that did a tremendous amount of damage. We managed to keep the oidium in check but the mildew was a serious problem that also caused us a lot of concern. We also had the issue of frost in Chassagne on the 17th of May and then during the last week of July we lost quite a bit of fruit to sunburn. I elected to begin picking on the 20th of September and as you might imagine with all of these problems there was a lot of sorting required. At least the fruit we kept was ripe as potential alcohols were in the 12.5 to 13% range with post-malo pHs that were at or below 3.2, which these days is relatively low. Yields though weren´t encouraging and we were down 47% compared to say 2009. In terms of the overall quality 2012 is a very good vintage but it´s not 2010." Morey noted that his 2012s were bottled in August, 2013. (Vineyard Brands, www.vineyardbrands.com, Birmingham, AL)." - Bourghound