Community Tasting Note

AJ72 wrote:

Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - Initial impression. Very good. Bottle is fresh and tight as a drum. Makes me wonder why the wines further south get all the accolades because this is so pure. Precision and restraint is what I love about great Chablis so many Cote de Beaune wines are too rich and over the top. This is the opposite of that, tight, coil like tension, saline/brine, beeswax, classic Chablis in every way. Maybe not quite the flavour profile of the best vintages but pretty damn good. The last ten years the world has caught up, or at least the prices have, to what this Domaine has been doing forever and it's no longer easy to find without paying a premium for it. It still is better value than the more fancied players from Puligny/Meursault etc. If I wanted to get a top line bottle of Burgundy and show someone who knew nothing about it Raveneau would be at the top of the list. Even with current pricing this Butteaux shows that you don't have to break the bank to experience top shelf wine from Burgundy.

Edit: Wrote this note early on in the bottle but it has begun to shift through the gears as it sits in the glass. Seems like Raveneau doesn't have the same volume of premox issues? I still think this relates to a lack of sulphur in the winemaking (in other producers wines) but it's hard to understand why this seems to only be a modern issue? Screwcaps would also help but might be waiting a while for that to happen.

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