Every year , I get to taste the recently bottled wines from Coche Dury . My gracious host always offers them blind against the same vintage of Henri Boillot . This time 2015 .
A few remarks : As the Coche wines were bottled only a few weeks ago , they tend to suffer from " maladie de bouteille " : bottle shock in English ? My tasting notes need to be read with the necessary grain of salt . The Boillot wines were bottled earlier .
Both Boillot and Coche started the vendages around August 26/27 . Key for 2015 white burgundy was to start picking early . They did… The vintage overall has similar characteristics like 2003 and 2006 : even the best wines are made for early drinking . But Boillot really excelled in 2015 : Burghound rates them the highest of al , and from what I tasted , I fully agree .
Here are the notes : blind tasting with a few ringers in it . I did very poorly this time , mostly confusing Coche and Boillot ( as I usually prefered the Boillot , except for the 2 wines of the night…)
1a: mineral , wet stones , excellent class , medium length 89/100 ( Coche Dury aligoté )
1b: very rich ( too much ) , misses a bit of tension compared to the other 3 but good wine : 87/100 ( Cote Chalonaise , Stephane Aladame , Bourgogne blanc )
1c: mineral and elegant , more floral , drink now 89/100 ( H Boillot Bourgogne Blanc )
1d: more tight , more mineral , stony , well done 88/100 ( Coche Dury Bourgogne Blanc )
2a :really lovely wine , tension and acidity , spicy with candied apples , this must be Coche 92/100 ( H Boillot Meursault villages ) ( ps. apparently , a lot of Chevalieres in his )
2b : cooler , less complexity now , I don’t see the balance and where is the fruit ? NR ( Coche Dury Meursault Villages ) ( ps. probably suffering from bottle shock , should be great wine in a few months )
3a : lot’s of well integrated acidities , really rich but in an elegant fine style . 92+/100 ( H Boillot Meursault Charmes )
3b: more full bodied and a little heavy , not a great balance NR ( Coche Dury Meursault Caillerets )
3c: wow , even more complex than bottle 1 : spicy and rich but it has retained some good freshness . Most classy of this series 94/100( H Boillot Meursault Poruzots )
3d : smoky , spicy , rich , big wine , power dominates 93/100( Coche Dury Meursault Rougeots )
4a: mineral but very rich , some butter scotch at the moment NR ( Meursault Genevrieres Coche Dury )
4b: pure and floral , still monolytic , this wine needs time and is not typical of the vintage 93+/100 ( Meursault Genevrieres H Boillot )
4c: finesse and power , super classy wine , light-to-medium bodied , I really love this 96/100 ( Coche Dury Puligny Ensegnieres )
4d : more floral , apples , long and still monolytic 92+/100 ( H Boillot Puligny Villages ) ( a wow wine for a villages )
4e: harmonious and medium-to-full bodied , long with candied apples , lovely 94/100 ( h Boillot Puligny les Pucelles )
5a : honey on the nose , fine and delicate , I guessed Chevalier Montrachet 96+/100 ( 2010 ! Corton Charlemagne Roumier )
5b: Coche spice on the nose , this is not 2015 , incredible length , fenomenal wine , layer after layer of Coche spice , apple , salt , you name it . This must be one of the best white wines I EVER had in my life : 99+/100 ( Jean-Francois Coche Dury : Corton Charlemagne 2010 )
The jury is still out whether Rafael can make wines like father Jean Francois . I miss the fantastic " JF Coche nose " in the Rafael wine . Bur Rafael wines tend to gain some finesse . For the moment , I am nostalgic and prefer the JF wines .