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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.9 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 24 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Jeremy Holmes on 4/12/2023: Absolutely in the zone. Rich orchard fruits, dense and sappy. Plenty of almond butter and light toasty development. Great volume and excellent mineral freshness. Textural, silky and long. (577 views) | | | Tasted by Isobel goudi on 4/30/2020 & rated 92 points: Sehr fein, sehr mineralisch. Etwas zug. Mittlerer Körper. Langer Abgang (1204 views) | | | Tasted by Jeremy Holmes on 1/15/2020: Great colour, tinged with green. The nose is complex, with a whiff of smoke, some almond butter, white peach and something mildly exotic. It is dense and rich, with excellent detail and wonderful acid cut for the vintage. This is just a little bit Cochey and a lot bit good! (1362 views) | | | Tasted by etyc on 10/9/2019: Popped ~3-hrs prior to dinner into a Voss bottle. This showed very good minerality as well as depth/body at the same time (probably due to the vintage as well). On a personal basis, I thought it was a good decision to have this served chilled... this helped with maintaining the tension and verve! Very nice! (1580 views) | | | Tasted by Burgnick on 7/12/2019 & rated 88 points: This bottle is ripe and a bit one dimensional yet there was good minerality. (1374 views) | | | Tasted by fcxj on 7/12/2019 & rated 90 points: Jeremy. Faint gunflint notes, still tight. (1533 views) | | | Tasted by Isobel goudi on 9/8/2018 & rated 91 points: Langer Abgang. Goldgelb mit grünen Reflexen. Wunderbar im Mund und am Gaumen geschmeidig. Könnte noch etwas salzige sein. Grosser trinkspass. Animierend. Aber keine Gänsehaut (764 views) | | | Tasted by Isobel goudi on 9/8/2018 & rated 92 points: Grüne reflexe. Wunderbar Nase. Noch absolut frisch. Viel salz was ich liebe. Langer Abgang. (852 views) | | | Tasted by champussi on 12/20/2017 & rated 91 points: Der Wein brauchte wieder eine gute halbe Stunde Luft um sich zu öffnen. Diese Flasche wirkte reifer als die letzten 2, es fehlte ein klein wenig Frische. Evtl. Ist das Zalto Burgund doch eine halbe Nr. zu groß für diesen Wein!? An sich aber eine runde Sache! Jetzt trinken! 90 - 91 P (1066 views) | | | Tasted by etyc on 12/30/2016: Served a bit too cold, this started with white-flower and some citrus notes. We moved on to another pair of whites and allowed this to sit in the glass to warm up. By the time we came back, this had grown a lot bigger - distinct notes of flint, gun-powder. Yellow-fruited, this was rich & buttery on the palate, but had its balance kept in check by just the right amount of acidity. A very nice drink! (1588 views) | | | Tasted by Burgnick on 12/27/2016 & rated 91 points: Pnp. Nose is muted. Palate has ripe yellow fruit, nut fruit and salty minerals. It has some coche character. Superb meursault village. (1477 views) | | | Tasted by champussi on 10/20/2016 & rated 91 points: Immer noch Grapefruit. Rund! Hatte diesmal mehr Luft, 24 h mit einem fehlenden Glas mit Korken drauf im Kühlschrank!! Lecker!! (1309 views) | | | Tasted by champussi on 8/19/2016 & rated 90 points: Viel Grapefruit!! Wirkt noch recht jung! Dezentes Holz. Ich hatte mir etwas mehr erwartet. Aber nicht schlecht!! (1475 views) | | | Tasted by MNig on 10/14/2015 & rated 91 points: Maskuliner als der Wein seiner Schwester. Kraftvoll und elegant zugleich. Angenehm cremig, mit etwas vordergründigen Holzaromen, aber insgesamt gut integriert. Exotische Frucht und deutliche Mineralität. (1170 views) | | | Tasted by etyc on 12/30/2014: Goodbye 2014, Hello 2015 (Jade Palace): Wow this was good, punching above its "village" weight. Decanted for about an hour, it displayed notes of white-flowers, lime, mint, and had that extra feel of "creaminess" on the nose. On the palate, it started off being quite a typical Meursault - buttery, rich/dense with enough acidity and minerality keeping it fresh. As it sat in the glass, it developed more clarity, with additional notes of honey, chalks and the minerality becoming more pronounced. Bravo, for a village! (2425 views) | | | Tasted by astroman on 12/30/2014: Sweet yellow flower very balanced and focus. Great maker. (1741 views) | | | Tasted by Jeremy Holmes on 5/23/2013: Really drinking well right now. There’s still a big whack of sulphur on the nose but also beautifully pure orchard fruits mixing it up with pungent minerality. It is buttery rich with some nuttiness and a cool rocky, detailed finish. Terrific village wine. (2583 views) | | | Tasted by tewino on 4/7/2013 & rated 89 points: Nice. Proper use of oak. Very happy. Easy drinking riper year. (2443 views) | | | Tasted by octopussy on 11/13/2012 & rated 91 points: Light citric yellow with hints of green. In the nose, there are ethereal notes of lime and lemon peel, some lemon juice, a bit of elderflower and herbs like Estragon and peppermint as well as - in the background - a bit of red currant. It's a bit restrained. On the palate, this is chalky, slightly phenolic, very dry and has decent minerality. Crushed rocks type of wine. Not too long, but nice lingering in the mouth for a while. (2583 views) | | | Tasted by Jeremy Holmes on 8/29/2012: These 09 Boisson-Vadots show their abundant sulphur as a petroleum note, quite pleasant mind you, and this wine has plenty of that smoky minerality. It is ripe and sappy with some honeysuckle and almond cream smells. At its core is cool rock minerality and it ripples through the wine right up to the highly detailed and chiselled finish. (2220 views) |
| Bernard Boisson-VadotBoisson-Vadot
BURGUNDY, FRANCE
Domaine Boisson-Vadot is one of the fine, outstanding small producers in the village of Meursault that are not particularly well known beyond their native France, but which produce stellar examples of Meursault. The estate is currently run by the father and son team of Bernard and Pierre Boisson, who turn out between three and four thousand cases of wine per year. Pierre is now in his mid-twenties and slowly beginning to take over more and more of the decision making in the cellars for the family estate, in addition to making a few wines on his own as well from vineyard holdings on his maternal grandmother’s side of the family. Pierre Boisson is good friends with Raphael Coche, son of Jean-François Coche of Domaine Coche-Dury, and the two spend many hours together discussing winemaking and viticultural philosophies.
The wines of Domaine Boisson-Vadot have always been excellent, with a classic, soil-driven and racy style not encumbered by excessive new oak or extensive battonage, but the wines have taken a notable step up in quality now that father and son Boisson are working side by side. The Boisson family have been vignerons in Meursault for more than two centuries, and the wines today are as fine as they have ever been in the long and illustrious family history.
Like so many of the top domaines in Burgundy, there are no secrets to the success of the Boisson-Vadot wines. Rather, the tried and true formula of a high percentage of old vines, careful vineyard husbandry each year to nurture the greatest potential of each vintage out of the various vineyard holdings, and patient, careful winemaking in the cellars that allows the unique, underlying terroirs of each vineyard to take center stage in the finished wines. The wines are aged in a very modest amount of new oak- no more than twenty-five to thirty percent for the top cuvées, and less for the village wines and the Bourgogne Blanc bottlings.
Note: the wines of Boisson-Vadot, Pierre Boisson and Anne Boisson are all produced collaboratively at the family's cellars in Meursault. The hierarchy starts with the domaine’s excellent Bourgogne Blanc, from vines in the village of Meursault, which could easily be mistaken for a Meursault with its broad texture and hints of lime, nuts and honey. Pierre Boisson makes a village Meursault from his grandmother’s vineyards (30-50 year old vines in the lieu-dits of Criots and Perchots) that is a textbook example of the appellation, with the hazelnut-tinged fruit of the village coupled to lovely minerality and notes of lime zest. The domaine also makes three distinct village wine bottlings, from three of the best lieux à dits in Meursault: Sous la Velle (under Anne Boisson); Grands Charrons (planted in 1988) and Chevalières (planted in 1982). The Grands Charrons bottling is the nuttier of the three ("the most Meursault-y" says Bernard), with notes of apple and peach coupled to toasty hazelnut tones and a bit of iodine in its soil component. The Sous la Velle is broad yet refined, perhaps a slightly toned down version of the Grand Charrons. Lastly, the Chevalières is racier and more mineral in profile, with a tighter fruit component in its youth that recalls lime, delicious apples and just a touch of honey, layered over a great base of stony, racy soil tones. All the wines are excellent and quite age-worthy, and behave much more like top premier crus than they do village wines.
Domaine Boisson-Vadot also makes a beautiful example of Meursault “Genevrières”. The Genevrières is a classic example of this great vineyard (planted in 1975), with a power and quiet restraint that is a step above the villages bottling. The wine shows delicate nutty tones of Meursault tied to a beautiful fruit component redolent of pear and tangerine, and with a beautiful base of minerally soil that is rather rare for this most flattering Meursault premier cru. With less than a third new oak the great expression of Genevrières terroir stands front and center in this example from Boisson-Vadot, and this is clearly one of the best examples of this great vineyard to be found in the entire Côte de Beaune. The lineup is rounded out with a bit of Bourgogne Rouge, Auxey-Duresses and Pommard, and lastly, a tiny amount of Aligoté (from a block of 60 year old vines in the commune of Meursault) that Pierre Boisson also makes from his grandmother’s holdings, all of which are lovely examples of their respective appellations. A rising star in Meursault.
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Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBurgundy Les vins de Bourgogne (Bureau interprofessionnel des vins de Bourgogne) (and in English)
Burgundy - The province of eastern France, famous for its red wines produced from Pinot Noir and its whites produced from Chardonnay. (Small of amounts of Gamay and Aligoté are still grown, although these have to be labeled differently.) The most famous part of the region is known as the Cote d'Or (the Golden Slope). It is divided into the Cote de Beaune, south of the town of Beaune (famous principally for its whites), and the Cote de Nuits, North of Beaune (home of the most famous reds). In addition, the Cote Chalonnaise and the Maconnais are important wine growing regions, although historically a clear level (or more) below the Cote d'Or. Also included by some are the regions of Chablis and Auxerrois, farther north.
Burgundy Report | Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne - na stejné téma od Heleny Baker
# 2013 Vintage Notes:
* "2013 is a vintage that 20 years ago would have been a disaster." - Will Lyons
* "low yields and highly variable reds, much better whites." - Bill Nanson
* "Virtually all wines were chaptalised, with a bit of sugar added before fermentation to increase the final alcohol level." - Jancis Robinson
# 2014 Vintage Notes:
"We have not had such splendid harvest weather for many years. This will ensure high quality (fragrant, classy and succulent are words already being used) across the board, up and down the hierarchy and well as consistently from south to north geographically apart from those vineyards ravaged by the hail at the end of June." - Clive Coates
# 2015 Vintage Notes:
"Low yields and warm weather allowed for ample ripeness, small berries and an early harvest. Quality is looking extremely fine, with some people whispering comparisons with the outstanding 2005 vintage. Acid levels in individual wines may be crucial." - Jancis Robinson
# 2017 Vintage Notes:
"Chablis suffered greatly from frost in 2017, resulting in very reduced volumes. As ever, the irony seems to be that what remains is very good quality, as it is in the Côte d’Or. Cooler nights across the region have resulted in higher-than-usual acidity, with good conditions throughout the harvest season allowing for ripe, healthy fruit." - Jancis Robinson
# 2018 Vintage Notes:
"The most successful region for red Burgundy in 2018 was the Côte de Beaune. The weather was ideal in this area, with just enough sunlight and rain to produce perfectly balanced wines naturally." - Vinfolio
Côte de Beaune
Côte de Beaune (Bureau interprofessionnel des vins de Bourgogne)
Vineyard maps on weinlagen.infoMeursaultLocated in Cote de Beaune, south of Volnay and north of Puligny Montrachet. Meursault ("Murr-so") has historically been Burgundy's center for white wine production. In fact, nearly all of the 2.5 million bottles produced from 440 ha (1,090 acres) are whites. The soil is a mixture of marl and chalk and is perfectly suited to the production of chardonnay. Meursault wines are known for aromas of hazelnuts, honey and vanilla for its aromas and creamy, almost olive oilllike texture. There are no grand crus in Meursault, though Les Perrières, Les Genevrières and Les Charmes produce remarkable wines. Further, some of the most well-known vineyards of Meursault such as Narvaux and Limozin are not premier cru but Villages-classified vineyards. Recent top vintages include 2008, 2007, 2005, 2002, 1999, 1996, 1993, 1990.
With 437ha. of vineyards dedicated to Villages wine or Premier Cru, Meursault has the largest area permitted to be planted in white wine in the Cote-d'Or. Furthermore, despite the fact that the village lacks even one grand cru, Meursault has historically been Burgundy's center for white wine production, in the past even more so than Puligny-Montrachet or Chassagne-Montrachet. While much of those two villages had in the past been planted to red grapes, Meursault has always been white wine territory. In fact, the modern day vineyard of Les Combettes in Puligny-Montrachet, which forms a continuous chain with the premier crus of Meursault, was once considered part of Meursault and not Puligny, where the many nearby vineyards produced red wine. There are several important factors that determine the reputation of Meursault. Primarily, the soil throughout most of Meursault is perfectly suited to the production of chardonnay; it is a mixture of marl and chalk, that when combined with a largely east or southeast exposure creates healthy grapes that are full of character. Another factor correlates to geology, though in a very different way. Meursault's high water table allows its residents to carve deep, cold cellars "perfect for the production of wine" into the chalky, stony soil. So, while large negociants from Beaune dominated the production and marketing of Burgundy throughout time, Meursault remained a wine of its own citizens. Contributing to this, since red wine has been more prized throughout time, these same negociants looked elsewhere for sources because the wine of Meursault has always been white.
What makes the wine so special? The most common descriptors attached to Meursault are hazelnuts, honey and vanilla for its aromas and creamy for its texture. However, this simplifies things quite a bit. In most cases, Meursault despite an almost olive-oil texture is countered by a precise mineral character, stoniness and a more refined overall palate than, for instance, Chassagne-Montrachet. It's the unique stony/mineral character that often gets lost when tasting Meursault, as many concentrate on the ripe, hedonistic primary flavors and aromas. It's the bipolarity of the wine, the interplay of both factors, that makes Meursault one of the most sought after white wines in the world. As mentioned above, there are no grand crus in Meursault, though many would argue that Perrieres, Genevrieres and Charmes can attain these lofty heights in the hands of the best producers. Further, some of the most well-known vineyards of Meursault such as Narvaux and Limozin are not premier cru but Villages-classified vineyards, though again, the best examples are clearly of higher quality. source: http://www.burgundywinecompany.com/wines/display.php?subregion=Meursault
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