Community Tasting Note

• Keith Levenberg wrote: 91 points

  August 1, 2019 - So Reyane & Pascal Bouley is now Pierrick Bouley. I always found the R&P Bouley wines too rustic, but they did have the most gorgeous label in all of Burgundy. Now Pierrick is in charge and it has an ugly label, but the wine is WAAAAY better. Part of having caught up with the times, apparently, involves bottling the wine with a ton of trapped gas, so you do need to give this a heavy shake to get the CO2 out. After that this has gorgeous fruit, with a just-crushed aroma like sticking your nose over the fermentation vat combined with an almost violet-like perfume just to prove you're not drinking zygote barrel-sample wine. One of the freshest 2016s I have had lately - wine doesn't ordinarily taste like this when the next vintage is already on the shelf. I love the vibrancy of it, it's enlivening without crossing the line into Burgundy-that-tastes-like-Beaujolais. Instead the texture is satiny with just a slight edginess to remind you there is some tannin lurking underneath.

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