![]() ![]() While not a finished wine yet, if Jean Marc can preserve the impressive textural breadth at bottling, this is going to be an absolute cracker that should make natural wine geeks week at the knees. This wine is still in amphora and so retains a vibrant crunchy green fruit concentration, plush fleshy depth, nervy energy, and a most delicious sweet apple bon bon finish. The aromatics are quite lifted and phenolic, showing notes of baked apples, apple skins, pear purée and a savoury, earthy, white pepper, yellow pastille fruit intensity. Still bright lemon yellow with a hint of haze, this is an exotic Aligote brimming with energy and character. Jean Marc Millot Bourgogne Aligote 2017, Burgundy, France Jean Marc is also dabbling with a delicious new Amphora wine made with bought-in Aligote grapes and was kind enough to include a sample bottle in his 2016 red Burgundy sample shipment sent over for his annual London En-primeur tasting. Jean Marc and Christine’s second daughter, Alix is making her mark … this is her fourth vintage and the wines have now become highly prized both in Europe, America and Asia. The Cotes de Nuits Villages has been a great value wine for some years. There is just a little new oak on the Grand Crus and the Suchots but the wines rely on a very natural feel and intensity of fruit. There is a tendency to pick a little later (though never the last for the Cotes de Nuits Villages), use careful selection and then vinify in the natural way. He has combined his experience with a relatively new chai at Nuits Saint Georges and is coming out with some very solid wines indeed. Jean Marc has been in charge of his family’s small domaine for nearly two decades now. ![]() (Wine Safari Score: 92+/100 Greg Sherwood MW) A winery to follow closely, with wines to beg for at allocation time on release. Impressive depth, harmonious balance and a fine dusty, stony red berry compote finish. The palate is medium bodied showing fine density, supple creamy tannins, and the most delicious fleshy, mineral laden red fruits framed by confident but not tart acids. This pretty 2014 Gevrey Chambertin comes from vines planted between 19 and displays impressive aromatic violet perfume and pink blossom lift, lots of crunchy red cherry, tart red plums, summer strawberries and a pithy peppery leafy vibrancy ensure this is a complex glassful. But they have definitely emerged as one of the most sought after wineries in Burgundy over the past 4 or 5 years with consistently big scores from both critics Neal Martin and Burghound’s Allan Meadows.ĭomaine Duroché Gevrey – Chambertin “Champ” 2014, Bourgogne, 12.5 Abv. Unfortunately, I’m not the only one who has tasted these wines and realised what incredibly exciting results were being achieved from some top Cotes d’Or vineyards.ĭomaine Duroché is currently run by fourth generation Gilles Duroché along with his son Pierre, so they are by no means a new winery. I have been following this superb Burgundy producer since 2011/12. ![]()
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