Wildman 2012 Burgundy Preview and Barrel Tastings

2012 is a smaller but disarmingly delicious vintage. Whites can be a bit overly fleshy but still retain wild acidity in many cases. Reds are the stars here, though. As expected, not a classic Chablis vintage adorned in Kimmeridgian seashells across the board (but that happens once in a blue moon....2002, 2008, 2010 most recent to my mind).

• 2012 Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils Chablis

  France, Burgundy, Chablis

  Tasting pour. Peanut mineral nose. Good acid, not bad.

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• 2012 Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils Chablis 1er Cru Vaillon

  France, Burgundy, Chablis, Chablis 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Big mineral Chablis behind a reductive nose--very good! One of the successes here.

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• 2012 Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils Chablis 1er Cru Vaillon Cuvée Guy Moreau

  France, Burgundy, Chablis, Chablis 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Tactile oak, charming nonetheless. Needs time? Very good though.

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• 2012 Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils Chablis Grand Cru Valmur

  France, Burgundy, Chablis, Chablis Grand Cru

  Tasting pour. Big time applesauce Chard aromas, a massive wow. Pretty good acid. More Bâtard Montrachet than Chablis to my palate. Fat and impressive.

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• 2012 Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos

  France, Burgundy, Chablis, Chablis Grand Cru

  Tasting pour. Almost steely lean nose reminiscent of a young, taut Riesling?! Quite obviously shut down. Pretty good at this point, who knows where it'll end up. Possible it was a freshly opened new bottle.

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• 2012 Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos Clos des Hospices dans Les Clos

  France, Burgundy, Chablis, Chablis Grand Cru

  Tasting pour. Very impressive. Less than 2% new oak. Very nice. More attractive than the Les Clos today.

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• 2012 Domaine Armand Rousseau Père et Fils Gevrey-Chambertin

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin

  Tasting pour. Light-bodied (vs 2011) but sappy and luscious fruit, fine tannins. Grip, gorgeous.

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• 2012 Domaine Armand Rousseau Père et Fils Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux St. Jacques

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Tiny bit of reductive vinyl, otherwise open for business! Darker, leaner than GC. Prefer the GC at this early point, however this will of course surpass.

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• 2012 Domaine Armand Rousseau Père et Fils Chambertin

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Chambertin Grand Cru

  Tasting pour. Great again, still taut but great sappy extraction one expects of 2012. Lovely pinot sap, white peach and unripe plum and spice aromas. Unggghh. Will blossom many years from now.

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• 2012 Domaine Jacques Prieur Meursault Clos de Mazeray

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault

  Tasting pour. Broad, fat 2012 white. Old butter a bit, smudgy experience, good acid, good texture. I don't typically care for "fat" Meursault.

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• 2012 Domaine Jacques Prieur Beaune 1er Cru Grèves Blanc

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Beaune 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Gravel and sand at the bottom of Grèves for these vines. Yum! Apple aromas, nondescript a bit but yummy nonetheless.

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• 2012 Domaine Jacques Prieur Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Combettes

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. OOOH gorgeous mineral nose! Chalk and apple! Round, with stealthy acid, but quite nice! Winner, here!

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• 2012 Olivier Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Puligny-Montrachet

  Tasting pour. Winner in the O. Leflaive lineup. Oak, some reduction, but wild searing acid, just screaming acid. Most 2012 Puligny tasted was very, very impressive. Did he acidify to counter the roundness of the vintage?! Almost unnatural acidities across the lineup.

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• 2012 Olivier Leflaive Meursault 1er Cru Les Poruzots

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Almost lager-like nose. Oak, acid, lovely and not fat.

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• 2012 Olivier Leflaive Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos St. Marc

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Almost lager-like nose. A bit smudgy, but good.

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• 2012 Olivier Leflaive Corton-Charlemagne

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru

  Tasting pour. Big oak--almost formic acid aroma. Apple, medium acidity vs others tasted in lineup. Unsure where it will lead.

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• 2012 Domaine Génot-Boulanger Savigny-lès-Beaune Blanc

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Savigny-lès-Beaune

  Tasting pour. Broad, oaky, but nice acid on the tail.

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• 2012 Domaine Génot-Boulanger Meursault Clos du Cromin

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault

  Tasting pour. Round, but a charmer.

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• 2012 Domaine Génot-Boulanger Puligny-Montrachet Les Nosroyes

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Puligny-Montrachet

  Tasting pour. Wow! Apple, cut, mineral! Just lovely!

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• 2012 Domaine Génot-Boulanger Meursault 1er Cru Bouchères

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Barrel sample. Feels watery and broad, but good.

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• 2012 Domaine Génot-Boulanger Volnay 1er Cru Les Roncerets

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Volnay 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Wow! Great jam behind unripe plum, great acid, very impressive! winner in the red lineup

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• 2012 Domaine Génot-Boulanger Aloxe-Corton 1er Cru Clos du Chapitre

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Aloxe-Corton 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Oh so screaming young. Sturdy, acidic, almost formic (oak yet to digest?) Unsurprising that a red Corton or Aloxe Corton should be insisting on time.

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• 2012 Domaine Francois Lamarche Bourgogne

  France, Burgundy, Bourgogne

  Tasting pour. Holy cats that's a lot of sulphur. It stayed with me for the rest of the day (believe it was not only the Grande Rue). Yields a red with corn and asparagus aromas. Stemmy? Lean and mean and nice, but: ouch. Orphic journey to the sulphurous depths.

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• 2012 Domaine Francois Lamarche Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Aux Malconsorts

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Tight, inky, but very promising! Stemminess here too in a great way.

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• 2012 Domaine Francois Lamarche Clos Vougeot

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Clos Vougeot Grand Cru

  Tasting pour. Reduction on nose, palate is lean and watery a touch, but good.

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• 2012 Domaine Francois Lamarche La Grande Rue

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, La Grande Rue Grand Cru

  Tasting pour. Comes across as oh so sulphurous in my brief affair. But good!

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• 2012 Domaine Humbert Frères Bourgogne

  France, Burgundy, Bourgogne

  Tasting pour. Hey! Not bad! Simple and light but delicious, proper quality for a Bourgogne

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• 2012 Domaine Humbert Frères Fixin Vieilles Vignes

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Fixin

  Tasting pour. Yum! What a charmer! This is ready to go! Great surprise!

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• 2012 Domaine Humbert Frères Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin

  Tasting pour. Another surprise! Very nice! Balanced and sappy

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• 2012 Domaine Humbert Frères Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Poissenot

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. King of the lineup. Yum, wow, great grip, spice and acid!

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• 2012 Domaine Humbert Frères Charmes-Chambertin

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru

  Tasting pour. Another wow, tasty, but reserved--not as yielding as the Poissenot today.

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• 2012 Sylvain Cathiard Vosne-Romanée

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Vosne-Romanée

  Tasting pour. Dear Lord I love Cathiard's wines. These are unsurprisingly better than the 2011s. His wines have a regal, cool fruit character that reminds me of Roumier, but these are of course heavier wines of no less pedigree to my mind. Big wow here. Sylvain would consider this wine perfect in 5-6 years, even if it can last longer. His palate resembles mine in that he prefers drinking on the fruit/fresher side.

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• 2012 Sylvain Cathiard Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Aux Murgers

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Reduction present a bit on nose. Another big wow.

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• 2012 Sylvain Cathiard Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Aux Thorey

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Slight reduction here too. More elegant cool fruit. So very consistent with the rest of the lineup.

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• 2012 Sylvain Cathiard Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Aux Malconsorts

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Slight reduction here too. Obvious long term winner of the lineup. So very impressed with these wines, and Sylvain (edit: Sebastian!) is still so young.

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• 2012 Jean-Luc & Eric Burguet Gevrey-Chambertin Mes Favorites Vieilles Vignes

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin

  Tasting pour. Only wine of lineup not suffering from heavy reduction. Candied character perhaps a bit of surmaturité? Still think that with time this will be very nice.

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• 2012 Jean-Luc & Eric Burguet Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Champeaux

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Massive reduction--Alain had it in a decanter and was said tasters couldn't taste through the reduction. The fruit here (and in most of his wines) is astoundingly bright and pronounced. I bet that with time that this will be phenomenal.

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• 2012 Jean-Luc & Eric Burguet Chambolle-Musigny Les Echezeaux

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Chambolle-Musigny

  Tasting pour. Reduction here too. Light, lovely fruit. Second winner of the lineup for me behind the super reductive Champeaux.

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• 2012 Jean-Luc & Eric Burguet Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Rouges du Dessus

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru

  Tasting pour. Pretty ready for business! JBT's fave of the lineup. Nice, charmer, spice-party, rusty a bit. Very good!

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• 2012 Jean-Luc & Eric Burguet Vosne-Romanée

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Vosne-Romanée

  Tasting pour. Tight, tannic. Slightly inscrutable.

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• 2012 Jean-Luc & Eric Burguet Chambertin-Clos de Bèze

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Chambertin-Clos de Bèze Grand Cru

  Tasting pour. Nose is rusty/musty, old world a bit. Palate is tight. Fruit is less pronounced than other reds tasted. Nice though, in this brief tasting.

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• 2012 Domaine Armand Rousseau Père et Fils Ruchottes-Chambertin Clos des Ruchottes

  France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Ruchottes-Chambertin Grand Cru

  Tasting pour. Holy mother of God this was the wine of the whole tasting. Effing gorgeous mineral nose almost reminiscent of Styrofoam, spice out the wazoo, stems adding complexity, take me now Lord. Wooow. Need a cry and a nap after this. Debated about trying to purchase a bottle.

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