Domaine Louis Moreau 2010 Petit Chablis
Petit Chablis comes from lesser sites around Chablis. It’s lighter in body and concentration, but it still demonstrates the region’s terroir. It does so here with a stunning intensity of granite, flint and grapefruit aromas. The finish is brief, but the wine is pleasurable and available for a song. Drink up.
Patrick Piuze 2010 Chablis Terroir de Courgis
It’s amazing that Patrick is only on his third vintage under this label and that he buys fruit. A fervent terroirist, he vinifies to express the grapes’ true essence. This wine is squeaky clean, charged with oyster shell and gunpowder and brimming with lean citrus fruit. Drink now to 2015.
Domaine de Marsoif 2010 Bourgogne Tonnerre La Cuvée de Marguerite
This Bourgogne-appellation Chardonnay bears the Tonnerre distinction. Tonnerre sits northeast of Chablis. The nose is timid, but the fruit is juicy. The palate unfolds a lightly tugging texture attributable to the nervy acidity and resolute dryness. The finish evaporates, but it will be a delightful quaffer through 2013.
Domaine Ghislaine et Jean-Hugues Goisot 2010 St. Bris Exogyra Virgula
Goisot really masters les petits vins, wines from less-esteemed appellations. St. Bris is southwest of Chablis and this is a Sauvignon Blanc. The fruit is well-concentrated and the wine displays excellent Sauvignon Blanc typicity. Cut grass, gooseberry and grapefruit zing the palate and finish with excellent minerality. Drink through 2013.
Domaine Lucien Boillot & Fils 2010 Pinot Beurot Les Grands Poisots
Pinot Beurot is an old Burgundian name for Pinot Gris. It’s hard to recognize the variety here, but its taste and texture are Burgundian, perhaps due in part to the 50 plus-year-old vines. This vin shows pure fruit, crystalline acidity and chalky texture. Fairly short length. Drink through 2014.
Dubreuil-Fontaine 2010 Pernand-Vergelesses Clos Berthet Premier Cru
Christine Dubreuil personifies the classic French lady. She is polished, charming and politely confident – like her wines. This is her monopole, an extension of Sous Frétille. Chiseled by its acidity and balanced by its creamy mid-palate, this wine is assertively mineral with Seckel pear and white peach. Drink through 2018.
Pierre Matrot 2010 Bourgogne Chardonnay
Restrained nose with subdued fruits. Fern, moss and marjoram surface first. With time in the glass, mirabelle and Comice pear appear. A tremendous saline quality makes the wine zesty and dry, and there’s a chalkiness that is almost Chablisienne. Medium-plus finish – very impressive for “just” a Bourgogne.
François Mikulski 2010 Aligoté
This is a brisk wine with a solid acidic spine. Medium in body with excellent concentration, the flavors range from orange peel and Anjou pear to bamboo and cactus. There’s also an unusual and lovely spiciness. Drink now to 2014.
Domaine Ragot 2010 Givry Blanc Champ Pourot
Lovely, like Meursault but with less pronounced acidity, this wine shows lovely purity and style. Flavors abound and include sweet milk, ripe Cameo apple and a sliver of honeycomb. The medium-plus finish suggests this has a ways to go. Drink now to 2016.
Domaine de Roally 2010 Viré-Clessé
This wine shows an impressive mingling of citrus – grapefruit zest, tangerine pulp and orange pith. The breadth and weight on the palate are akin to half-and-half and there are raw milk flavors here, too. Hints of fresh mushrooms surface on the fairly brief finish. Enjoy its youth through 2014.
Henri Perrusset 2010 Mâcon-Villages
The attack shows an impressive dryness that gives the wine a lightly dusty quality across the palate. Deeply mineral with impeccably clean fruit, lemons, yellow grapefruit and mango combine on the palate. Moderate finish. Enjoy through 2016.
Comments
pson
Are we supposed to try and track these down somewhere without any information about where they are distributed?
Are they better than the Puligny and Chassagne Montrachets that I bought, stupidly not realising Chrissy Canterbury would comment 10 months after the en primeur sales?
Why are there sauvignons and pinots listed under an article about white burgundy?
What sort of price ranges are we talking of?
This article is a set of tasting notes from an unknown event.
Oct 05, 2012 at 5:03 AM
Canterbury-
MW
Williamsimpson,
If you had read my article, you should have found answers to most of your questions.
Each wine shows links to where wines are available. The pricing is listed, too.
This is not about en primeur purchasing. This is simply about good value Burgundy! I make this point at the end of page 1, "From north to south, here are some VALUE 2010 whites from the sacred soils of Burgundy."
All wines listed are WHITE BURGUNDY, as I point out in the first paragraph:
"Yes, Chardonnay is the Holy Grail in Burgundy, but there’s also some awfully cool juice that comes from a few other grapes and sometimes for less coin."
These tastings occurred in New York and in Burgundy in professional settings.
I hope you enjoy your Puligny and Chassagne wines. Just don't pop those corks too early.
Christy (not Chrissy)
Oct 05, 2012 at 5:49 PM
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