Jean-claude Boisset2018 Auxey-Duresses, Jean-Claude Boisset
Burgundy, FranceVintage: 2017
Pale yellow in colour with golden reflections. The seductive nose has aromas of green apple and white flowers that mingle with notes of toast and smoke. On the palate, the wine is supple with superb balanced and a bright, zesty acidity, which lifts the finish.
Grégory is renowned for his ingenuity in sourcing the highest quality fruit from small parcels, or ‘lieu-dits’, across the region, producing the finest wine that the vintage can offer. Nestled between the two famed villages of Volnay and Meursault, Auxey-Duresses has only 150 hectares of vines. Today, it producers some of the Côte’s best value for money wines. The fruit for Auxey-Duresses comes from a 0.31-hectare plot located in the extension of the Meursault appellation, where the soils are mostly limestone and the vines face northeast. The balance between warm and cool influences results in a long, slow ripening period, allowing the grapes to retain their acidity and lending excellent balance to the finished wines.
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100% Chardonnay
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Jean-Claude Boisset was radically transformed with the arrival in 2002 of viniculteur Grégory Patriat, one of the best viticulturalists/winemakers of his generation in Burgundy. Grégory had spent the previous three years working in the vineyards at Domaine Leroy and still spends a great deal of his time in the vineyards, paying his growers by the hectare in order to ensure low yields. He also prefers to work with organic growers, as he finds they produce better fruit. Unlike other Burgundian négociants, Grégory specialises in making wines from ‘lieu-dits’ or tiny plots of vines, something which accounts for the limited production of most of his wines.
The hand-picked grapes were sorted first in the vineyard and again at the winery. Whole bunches of grapes were gently pressed for two and a half hours. The temperature of the must was lowered to 12°C and then immediately transferred to barrels of 450 and 350 litres, with no settling to preserve a maximum of lees. Fermentation was long, lasting around 10 months, using indigenous yeasts for added complexity and freshness. Following fermentation, the wine was aged for 14 months in French oak barrels (of which 35% was new) with no racking or stirring in order to preserve the distinct minerality of this site.
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