Yes martin, I have a couple of vintages of the Volnay Santenots and it is a slight step up from the Pommard witha bit more flesh.
This is fantastic wine, and a pointe right now.
Last night’s 2011 Jadot Savigny-Les-Beaune La Dominode was looking pretty good. Typical Jadot structure, showing good tannin base, slightly firm texture with a nod to the cooler vintage, but not overtly so. Really pretty red fruited aromatics. On balance a very nice expression.
Thank you for the note on the Jadot, Kent. I believe that there were a lot of pretty, red-fruited wines made in 2011 and that in a few years time savvy Burgundy buyers will be hunting them down.
The 2012 Jean-Marc Pillot Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge VV is on par with Jean-Marc Morey’s Santenay Cornieres. It does not have the transparency of that wine, but it compensates with a deeper core of cherry fruit. It is a direct wine, with rich fruit and good flesh, and real sap and vigor. If I were a young Burgundy collector on a budget, I would be looking in places like this and not the fancy pants appellations to the north. This is the sort of wine, with about 30 years of bottle age, Jeremy Holmes unearths while sleuthing in Burgundy and then waxes poetic about it here on the board.
'13 Paul Pillot Chassagne VV on the chopping block tonight. Looking forward to seeing how it performs.
2009 Lucien Muzard Santenay ‘Les Champs Claude’: Started off with some spicy oak notes along with smoked meats and red berries. It gained depth in the glass and had the ripeness of fruit of the vintage. It was full and chunky, with plenty of flavour and a savoury, earthy finish.
2013 Paul Pillot Chassagne-Montrachet VV is quite burly and powerful, with dense black fruits with a slightly rustic edge. It should age very well and is a definite 1 on the Weinberg scale.
FWIW, I had a 2012 Jean-Marc Pillot Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge VV a few nights ago, but I didn’t get much pleasure out of it. My thoughts were closer to Kent’s, maybe just tightly wound. Too early for me to judge, in any case. Had a bit of a smokey nose which could’ve been reduction or oak; I couldn’t quite decide. Good core of fruit, but something about it didn’t thrill me. Could’ve just bee me!
Michael
Interesting. The only place I have seen this wine is at the winery. I visited there in 2007 and Patrick Essa gave me a taste of an older Pommard. Was really impressive. I own a couple of 2005 Volnays from them but have not tasted them yet. Love the whites.
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2013 Domaine Bart Marsannay Les Echezots - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Marsannay (10/16/2015)
This is a serious overachiever - a joke at $24.
If served blind, I might have pegged this as CA traditionalist due to the bright and rich red fruit when first opened, but would be a tough call as this definitely straddles the line between Old World and restrained New World at first. Fruit integrates further after about an hour but is present (and lovely) throughout. From start to finish, very nice subtle herbal/minty/mentholly/stemmy elements on the back end, adding interest. Very, very, very fine tannins, and on the whole a very smooth mouthfeel.
Not super complex and not a long term ager, but this should provide enormous pleasure, and maybe some positive evolution, over the next 8-10 years. That this can be had for less than many Bourgognes and less than half the price of a crappy CA pinot noir is mind-boggling. This wine really defines QPR.
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Thanks for the useful note, Levi. I had the 2011 vintage of this some months ago, and found it a tad oaky for me (though, from what I can gather, the Domaine uses only 25% new wood on its single vineyard cuvees). I’ve been thinking that maybe the 2011 wasn’t the best introduction to the wine though, and may now try the 2013 based on your note. I see K and L still has some in stock.
Yep - bought it at KL. They’re out of the Longeroies (I only bought 1 of those, and probably should have bought more), but still have this and the Ouzeloy (at an even more ridiculous price).
Re: oak: I don’t generally object to a little oak, but I honestly didn’t sense any last night. It’s a very bright wine, with some richness, but no oak flavor or heaviness to my palate.
Good to know Levi, thanks. Will look to give this vintage a whirl.
The 2012 Jean-Marc Morey Santenay 1er Cru Grand Clos Rousseau is a pale red, Guillemot-like color in the glass. Through the red fruits and earth/truffles, one can smell right to the bottom of the glass. The attack is rich and full of gently sweet, fleshy red fruit, with earthy/forest accents. Bright acids keep everything neat and taut on the mid-palate, followed by grippy tannins. You New Yorkers are lucky as this is a Rosenthal import. If you see it, I recommend that you buy it. Rosenthal sold it out quickly. About $45.
Not quite off the beaten path, but 2005 Jean-Claude Boisset Gevrey-Chambertin ‘Le Creot’ was humming last night. Still mildly muscular, but showing good purity of dark fruits and a slightly sauvage character. Still a long road ahead of it, but for the modest tariff at the time, delivers in spades.
Off the beaten path enough for me not to know the wine, Kent. It sounds quite 2005 and really good. Village lieu dit, I trust.
Lieu-dit indeed.(Say that after a few bevvies!) Some '05s are really opening up nicely.
The 2010 Edmond Cornu Ladoix VV originates from vines between 50 and 90 years-old at the foot of the Corton hill, and one definitely gets a Corton vibe. The wine is moving out of the red spectrum and into black in color, aroma and flavor. It is bright and pure on the nose - cranberry and blackberry. It is firm and lean on the palate, but the fruit is bright and nicely framed by brisk acids. The tannins are firm, as well. I expect that this will stretch out nicely with some time, but it is a perfectly satisfying drink right now for true Burgundy drinkers who don’t mind leaning in a bit to listen to what is going on.
Many excellent recommendations above.
No specific recent tasting notes but one can do very well looking in Blagny ier Cru, Pernand Ille de Vergelesses, Aloxe Vercots, and Volnay Carelles amongst many others.
Riper vintages are best and it will surprise as to the names of the producers who made or make these wines, including Rossignol, Pernot, Jobard, Guyon, Matrot, Faiveley, Ampeau, Cornu, and Leflaive until fairly recently.
Great reccos above for Santenay, Marsannay, Ladoix, Rully and Mercurey, and don’t forget the whites from later few including Pataille Marsannay Blanc.
Cheers
2009 Jean-Marc Vincent Santenay ‘Les Gravieres’ shows the power and extra ripeness of the vintage. Quite dense and chunky and a bit of an outlier compared to other vintages of this wine. Still delivers at the price point, but to me I prefer the '08, '10, '12 & '13.