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Bernard Boisson-Vadot

Boisson-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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Visite et notes de dégustation d'Arnaud Morin - Novembre 2012

Aligoté 2010 :
Beau nez d’amande , bouche très tranchante , très serrée , puissante et franche , précis , avec beaucoup de densité .
Comme d’habitude , hors concours à ce niveau d’appellation . 16/20

Bourgogne blanc 2010 :
Nez de fougères , d’herbe mouillée . Attaque en bouche ronde , grasse , ciselée . Un beau beurré sous jacent apparaît doucement au grumage . A carafer une heure au minimum . 15/20

Meursault sous la velle 2010 :
Extrêmement serré , avec beaucoup de finesse . Colonne vertébrale tranchante , sur l’acidité . La finale est ciselée mais manque de légèrement de complexité .
15/20

Meursault (Pierre Boisson) 2010 :
Belle matière , avec un beau tranchant du début à la fin . Encore un peu sur la réserve et un peu court . A attendre impérativement . 14/20

Meursault Grands Charrons 2010 :
Nez bien ouvert , avec un beau beurré équilibrant en bouche . Beaucoup de densité , sur une matière fine et tranchante . Finale très précise . 16/20

Meursault Chevalières 2010 :
Nez très complexe sur l’abricot , la pêche . La bouche est pleine mais serrée . Très belle longueur . Tout est là ….. 17/20

Meursault 1er cru Genevrières 2010 :
Nez très aromatique sur les fruits jaunes . La bouche est grasse , dense , mais avec une précision de laser . Enormément d’ampleur à l’aération . Beaucoup de puissance . La finale est bien équilibrée sur un côté ciselé . 18/20

Auxey Duresses blanc 1er cru En Reugnes 2010 :
Nez très ouvert sur la fougère avec beaucoup de tension . Bouche dense , bien équilibrée , avec une acidité tranchante et brillante . Puissance impressionnante . 16/20

Bourgogne rouge 2010 :
Superbe nez sur le fruit , gourmand , avec une belle intensité . La bouche est friande . Belle structure en finale pour le niveau d’appellation . 14/20

Auxey 1er cru rouge 2010 :
Belle matière , très serrée , avec beaucoup de fruit , des tannins souple en milieu de bouche , mais austères en final . Belle densité . Vin de garde . 15/20


Comme d'habitude , beaucoup de personnalité dans tous les vins .
Les 2010 du domaine présentent tous une pureté incroyable , une précision de laser , une tension vibrante associé à la densité naturelle du millésime et un côté austère et serré qui va en faire des vins de garde par excellence . Cette énorme densité s'exprime très peu pour l'instant , écrasée en l'état par une belle acidité dominante , mais ceux qui sauront les attendre une petite dizaine d'années se retrouveront avec de véritables petites pépites tant il ne manque rien ........en un mot : "superbes "

Last edited on 11/9/2012 by THT

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