Terres de Velle Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Referts 2017
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Xavier Monnot Beaune Premier Cru Les Toussaints 2018
£54.95“The 2018 Beaune Les Toussaints ler Cru has a perfumed black currant, bilberry and violet bouquet that has a little more horsepower than the Les Cent-Vignes. The palate is quite precocious, displaying fine tannins, a keen line of acidity and excellent precision on the finish. This is showing great potential. Drinking window: 2022-2035. 90-92 points
Xavier Monnot began the harvest on 20 August and had fined the his wines the previous week of my visit. ” I did a bit more whole bunch in the reds: 20% in the bottom of the vat to add more freshness. I did the same for the 2019s,” he explained.”
Neal Martin, Vinous (01/20)
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Xavier Monnot Meursault Les Chevalieres 2020
£76.95“The 2020 Meursault Les Chevalieres is a step up from the Monthélie as it demonstrates much more tension and complexity on the nose: hazelnut and citrus peel, a slight tertiary quality. The palate is well balanced, not deep or intense, but fresh and delineated with just enough salinity on the finish. Drink over the next decade. Drinking window: 2024-2032. 89-91 points
Xavier Monnot told me, “I love this vintage” when I visited him in Meursault. He picked from August 20 and finished on August 29. I really admired his 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet En Remilly with its cheeky touch of Japanese shiso leaf on the finish. The reds were de-stemmed and quite opulent in style; the Pommard Les Vignots and Volnay Clos des Chênes are well worth seeking out. These wines are bottled under natural cork.”
Neal Martin, Vinous (12/21)
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Xavier Monnot Meursault Premier Cru Les Charmes 2020
£114.75“The 2020 Meursault Les Charmes 1er Cru has a perfumed bouquet with citrus peel, chai tea, hints of white chocolate and a touch of stem ginger. There is ample weight on the palate, quite sapid with a fine line of acidity, just a hint of green olive towards the finish that fans out with confidence. This is a fine Meursault-Charmes. Drinking window: 2024-2034. 91-93 points
Xavier Monnot told me, “I love this vintage” when I visited him in Meursault. He picked from August 20 and finished on August 29. I really admired his 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet En Remilly with its cheeky touch of Japanese shiso leaf on the finish. The reds were de-stemmed and quite opulent in style; the Pommard Les Vignots and Volnay Clos des Chênes are well worth seeking out. These wines are bottled under natural cork.”
Neal Martin, Vinous (12/21)
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Xavier Monnot Pommard Les Vignots 2020
£69.95“The 2020 Pommard Les Vignots has a lively, minty bouquet that is well defined, quite floral with iris flowers emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins, quite structured with a vibrant saline finish that lingers. This must be the I’dark horse” of Monnot’s range. Drinking window: 2024-2045. 91-93 points
Xavier Monnot told me, “I love this vintage” when I visited him in Meursault. He picked from August 20 and finished on August 29. I really admired his 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet En Remilly with its cheeky touch of Japanese shiso leaf on the finish. The reds were de-stemmed and quite opulent in style; the Pommard Les Vignots and Volnay Clos des Chênes are well worth seeking out. These wines are bottled under natural cork.”
Neal Martin, Vinous (12/21)
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Bernard & Thierry Glantenay Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Folatieres 2017
£79.99“Pretty and expressive, the 2017 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatières offers up notes of crisp pear, ripe lemon and a touch of struck matchstick from its recent bottling, followed by a medium to full-bodied, satiny palate with tangy acids, nice chewy extract and a chalky finish. It’s one of the finest white wines I’ve tasted from Glantenay. Drink: 2019-2029. 93 points
The disarmingly modest Thierry Glantenay is emerging as one of the Côte de Beaune’s most exciting producers of red wine. From his hillside winery overlooking the Marquis d’Angerville’s Clos des Ducs, Glantenay is producing a lovely range of elegant, pure and intense Volnays and Pommards that are increasingly consistent and stylistically assured. In the cuverie, he tells me, he is more and more content to let temperature and alcohol do the work of extraction for him, keeping pigéage and rémontage to a minimum; pressing is gentle; and élevage, without racking until the mise en bouteille, takes place in at most 30% new barrels. In the cellar, no matter which barrel you choose, the wines taste reliably wonderful: indeed, after my first tasting with Glantenay, some years ago, I was compelled to return a week later to verify that I hadn’t been imagining things, and that so serious a producer could really be so little known. That his wines sometimes take longer to bounce back after bottling than those of his peers, therefore, surprises me. Glantenay neither fines nor filters, but might the mobile bottling line he uses for the mise perhaps do a gentler job? In any case, the quality is not in doubt, and after the superb vintages of 2015 and 2016, 2017 is a worthy successor, in a lighter, more supple register, certainly, but with plenty of flavor and personality, and at last, available in normal quantities.”
William Kelley, Wine Advocate (01/19)
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Bernard Moreau Chassagne-Montrachet 2018
£64.99“The 2018 Chassagne-Montrachet Village had been blended in July and fined three weeks prior to my visit. It has a delightful bouquet of orange blossom, tinned peach and touches of wild mint, quite intense for a Village Cru. The palate is taut, fresh and spicy on the entry, with touches of white pepper and fennel infusing the citrus fruit. An almost clinical saline finish lingers in the mouth. Superb. Drink: 2021-2036. 90-92 points
Readers will know the high esteem in which I hold Domaine Bernard Moreau and winemaker Alexandre Moreau. You want the best Chassagne-Montrachet? This is where you call first. I have absolutely no reason to alter that view with respect to the 2018s. “We started picking on 30 August, the same date as 2017 but the profile of the vintage is different,” Moreau told me surrounded by stainless steel vats. “This was because of the size of the crop and the heat. I like to have freshness and not too much alcohol, so I was anxious about the picking date. So I controlled the maturity, constantly tasting in the vineyard and soon realised that the sugar level can rise quicker than the phenolic maturity. I have now started the harvest in August in 2015, 2017 and 2018. I couldn’t understand why if August was so warm, the increase in sugar level was actually quite slow. I knew it was generous, but I did not know it would be so generous in older vineyards – something that I have never seen. For example, I haven’t made nine barrels of Chassagne Chenevottes since I began, then again, yields are only just above 50hl/ha for the Premier Crus. Maybe people are expecting something like 2003, but the 2018s are not heavy at all. For the Village and Premier Crus the alcohol is between 13.0° and 13.5°. As usual we practice natural fermentations, no racking and so forth – the only difference in 2018 is that it was a super-long alcoholic fermentation. Many barrels were fermenting until July – and I don’t mind that – I like to play this game as you have activity in the barrel with the fine lees in suspension and natural CO2 that protects your wine. The pH is around 3.19, which gives them a lot of freshness. It is not a vintage for early bottling and so most of the Premier Crus will be bottled next Spring.””
Neal Martin, Vinous (01/20)
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Marquis d’Angerville Volnay Premier Cru Champans 2018
£109.95“The 2018 Volnay Les Champans 1er Cru has an outgoing bouquet similar to the Taillepieds, albeit one with more intellectual weight and gravitas behind it. Black cherries, blueberry and light cassis aromas reveal crushed stone and undergrowth notes, all delivered with intensity and superb delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly firmer, stockier tannins than the Taillepieds, darker fruit and grainier texture toward the persistent finish. I see this has having real long-term potential. Excellent. Drinking window: 2023-2050. 93-95 points
“It was a pretty uneventful and easy season,” a typically sanguine Guillaume d’Angerville told me, as we tasted his 2018s in the ground floor tasting room within his maison that lies within Clos des Ducs. “There was an early flowering around 20 May. There was no significant mildew pressure and the vines reacted better than expected during the dry conditions. They are getting accustomed to it. They didn’t seem to suffer. We started the harvest early on 1 September. You know, the eight most precocious years have all been since I took over the Domaine from my father in 2003. We finished the picking after around five days. The vinification was unusual as the sugar levels were high for the yeasts to work efficiently and so a couple of malos took place during the alcoholic fermentation, which was not healthy for the yeast. So getting the wine to complete dryness was the challenge. Everything is de-stemmed, though for Volnay Frémiets I use a single 80 hectoliter vat and we ended up with more volume than that. So we used an additional smaller vat and in this we used 50% whole bunch that will be included in the final blend.”
Neal Martin, Vinous (01/20)
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Xavier Monnot Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Folatieres 2019
£129.95“The 2019 Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatieres 1er Cru has a well-defined, focused bouquet of apple blossom and touches of quince; underneafh is crushed limestone that comes through with aeration. The palate is rounded and fat in the mouth. This is packed with tropical fruit, but there is sufficient acidify to back it up and a lovely honeyed texture on the finish. Not intellectual, but delicious. Drinking window: 2022-2038. 90-92 points”
Neal Martin, Vinous (12/20)
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Xavier Monnot Volnay Premier Cru Clos des Chenes 2018
£74.95“The 2018 Volnay Clos des Chenes ler Cru offers a mixture of red and black fruit, veins of blue fruit and lovely floral notes coming through with aeration, and the oak is nicely integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly chalky tannins that frame the black currant and bilberry truit. A dense Volnay with an attractive sappy finish. Drinking window: 2022-2033. 89-91 points
Xavier Monnot began the harvest on 20 August and had fined the his wines the previous week of my visit. ” I did a bit more whole bunch in the reds: 20% in the bottom of the vat to add more freshness. I did the same for the 2019s,” he explained.”
Neal Martin, Vinous (01/20)
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