2010 Domaine Chandon de Briailles Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Ile des Vergelesses- France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru (12/5/2012)
Starts off quite pretty with some cherries, raspberries and pomegranate then it kicks down a few gears showing all of its grunt, torque and workman like qualities. There’s some soot, blood, iron and smoked meats. Fruits have a darker edge with air and strands of liquorice thread through the palate. It has a light creaminess from the oak and its youthful exuberance allows you to sneak a peek now, but you feel its only a matter of months before the anthocyanins monster the fruit and demands that the drinker fuck off and not come back for at least a decade.
You mention notable oak, but I thought there was no new oak in their wines, and that they bought all their barrels from Meo or somebody after one year of use? (I suppose you could still get some oak from a one year old barrel).
By the way, just had their 1994 of this wine (don’t know why I bought 94’s on release, but i did.) Fairly deep color, with bricked edges. Leaf pile, strawberry, slight dark cherry on the nose. Moderate concentration, slightly soft palate with similar notes. Not the ripest or most powerful wine, but overall very pleasant and impressive for the year.
New and old oak can aid in a creamy texture and that is what I was commenting on, only very light mind you as the wine is very precise and rocky. No real aroma or flavour impact from the wood in this one.
Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for opening this baby and posting. I will most definitely considered myself to have been told to f**k off as well and leave my 2010’s of this wine to rest for a long time
Sounds like it will develop into something really tasty and interesting when it comes into balance in time