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La Soufrandière Pouilly-Vinzelles Les Quarts(2001)
- Winery:
- La Soufrandière
- Varietal:
- Chardonnay
- Region:
- France > Burgundy > Mâconnais > Pouilly-vinzelles
- Type:
- White Wine
- User Tags:
- smooth, citrus, mineral, lemon, caramel, harvest, character, fruit, balance, dough
- Burghound
- Issue 12, Oct 01, 2003
- 90/100
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May 2008
- Issue 8 details the origins of this new domaine (2002 was only its third harvest) directed by a young team of two brothers, Jean-Guillaume and Jean-Philippe Bret who do some of the best vineyard work I've yet seen in the Mâcon. They told me that they love the 2002 vintage, describing it as having the maturity of 2000 with the finesse of 2001. We harvested very ripe grapes with no rot. We were lucky because there was a lot of rain at the beginning of September and because it was warm, rot began to set in but thankfully, the north wind arrived, drying up the rot and concentrating the fruit. The brothers read more...also started a small négociant operation in 2001 with one wine and as can be seen by the expanded range of wines in 2002, they've expanded it, noting that we buy only hand harvested fruit from old vines worked in a manner than we agree with. This isn't about quantity, it's about quality and we think we can find more top quality sources. As the scores suggest, the quality here is remarkable and if you've yet to try any of the Bret wines, I think you're in for a treat. This is domaine to watch as it's a star in the making. (A Becky Wasserman Selection/Le Serbet, Beaune, France - sbw@wanadoo.fr ; Morris & Verdin, UK). An initial hint of SO2 dissipates with aggressive swirling and a bright, pungent, intensely detailed nose of grapefruit and an obvious stony quality lead to wonderfully complex, deep and driving flavors and like the '02, has an intensely mineral character to the finish. There is an abundance of mid-palate sap with a solid acid spine and this should reward 3 to 4 years of cellar time. Very pretty juice. (hide)
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