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2022 Jean-Marc Brocard Bourgogne Blanc Jurassique
4/2/2024 - Vaucrains Likes this wine: 90 Points
An astonishing wine, for the (very low) price, or any price. Brocard is a stellar Chablis vigneron, long-term organic, of precise lovely vines and wines. This is his ”other’ cuvee of vines on the edge of “official” Chablis. It is always stellar and a steal- a wine that eclipses most ”Chablis” and ”petit Chablis”. 2022 is magnificent in Chablis (the greatest source of unique chardonnay in the world?). Buy all the good 2022 Chablis you can at every level and wine maker you can afford. Well cellared, they will develop for years. This 2022 Jurassique is classic crushed oyster shell, chalk, lime, light touch of gunsmoke, very beautiful Chablis-chard pure fruit. Complete yum yum yum. Deliciously fresh now- but will round, lengthen and deepen over the next 10 years. I buy it and cellar it in every good vintage- and it’s delish at 5 and 10 years too.
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2005 Domaine Coste-Caumartin Beaune 1er Cru Chouacheux
10/2/2023 - Vaucrains Likes this wine: 93 Points
What a lovely, authentic utterly delicious burg. Fully mature, gossamer and lithesome, soft autumn leaves, faded rose, mature griotte, tiny touch of Xmas spice. Beautiful bouquet, beautiful silk palate. Yum.
A wine that shows there are still many under-the-radar burgs that never show up on the “ greatest burgs” lists (thank god) and are absolute steals, are a joy to drink, can mature for years and are the epitome of what pinot noir can attain, almost always in the Côte d’Or of France.
Don’t want to ignite a big debate, but I’m a burg-pn freak for the past 50 years and have been lucky enough to drink 1000s of sublime to simply good bottles (and some bad) from the glittering grand cru greats, to villages, to cotes de Beaune, to bourgogne rouge…as well as many New World pinots- and when I drink a not-famous 18 year old Beaune like this one ( who ever heard of Chouacheux?)- I feel again nowhere else makes Pinot Noir of this level and elegance and complexity- and very low cost. This wine cost me 18 euros on release, a ridiculously low price for a burg of this quality.
This Chouacheux plot is 47 year old vines, with a meticulous vigneron, no over-oaking, no over-saturation or over-extraction, or high alcohol. Deft touch, sagesse, deft wine. I wish I had 4 more cases.
Coste Caumartin makes lovely wines. Albert Morot is another Beaune maker of similar deftness, authenticity and value. There are many others in and near Beaune, Pernand, Savigny, Auxey, Monthelie, Mercurey and environs.
Not “ famous”- but in many ways perhaps the best of burg- because they consistently show what pinot noir can be from dozens of not-grand vineyards on slopes from Beaune down to the Challonais. Where else in the world is so much great Pinot made, from so many vineyards, over such a diversity of climats? And even today, at mostly fair prices.
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1990 Joseph Drouhin Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Petits Monts
6/1/2023 - Vaucrains wrote: 90 Points
A black brooding 1990 monster, almost mute, still very closed. I look at the dark glass and ponder the near non-bouquet and opaque dense palate and wonder what is going on? This is one of the hard to find great Vosnes, right above the greatest Grand Crus in the world. It seems to be packed with everything. Yet is still so tightly wound it is hard to say when it will maure and unfurl. It did not open in 4 hours of slow sipping; and was similarly mute the next day. A perfectly cold stored bottle from a great European cellar. My guess is this may become great in 20 more years. Or may just stay thick and mute as some 1990s do. But I incline towards it opening one day, as it is impeccably made and seems dense with everything. I would not open another bottle until several more years have passed. I score it 90+ for its seeming potential. If it ever opens up it may be a 95+ burg. At present though, to me at least, it’s a brooding enigma not ready to reveal itself.
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