Tag: Bourgogne

Bouchard Ainé & Fils Fixin ‘La Maziére’ 2019

14% abv, Beaune, imported by Boisset Collection, St. Helena, CA. Cork closure: natural. Biodynamic calendar: fruit day. While Fixin may live in Gevrey-Chambertin’s shadow, the wines are more than capable of producing examples with dark fruit and firm tannins as you would expect. In the capable hands of the négotiant house of the elder Bouchard, […]

Louis Latour Domaine Latour Corton Grand Cru 2009

14% abv, Beaune, Côte d’Or, imported by Louis Latour Inc., San Rafael, CA. I wouldn’t say I am an admirer of the IGP, regional and négotiant wines of Maison Latour, but they are able to do some pretty fantastic things with their estate wines which seem to benefit from the care of the winemaking team […]

Quentin Jeannot Maranges ‘Vieilles Vignes’ 2018

13% abv, Meursault, imported by MISA Imports, Dallas, TX. Cork closure: natural. Biodynamic calendar: root day. The Côte de Beaune village of Maranges can be considered a relative newcomer to the Bourgogne quality pyramid promoted from regional appellation to a village-level AOC with Premier Cru vineyards in just 1988, the wines in this area are near […]

Domaine Thénard Givry 1er Cru ‘Le Bois Chevaux’ 2014

13% abv, Baron Thénard, Givry, imported by Classified Wines, Houston, TX.  Smallholder Baron Thénard is most well-known for being a Montrachet producer who also excels at the wines of Givry, his home village in the Côte Chalonnaise, down below the town of Chalon-sur-Saone where the hills of Bourgogne spread out and the reddish clay-limestone soils favor […]

Domaine Jérôme Castagnier Bourgogne Aligoté 2017

12% abv, Morey-Saint-Denis, imported by Classified Wine Imports, Houston, TX. Cork closure: natural. Biodynamic calendar: leaf day. 5th generation vignerons, the Castagnier family practice biodynamic farming and own a small domaine of just 4 hectares in the Côte de Nuits village of Morey-Saint-Denis. This is undoubtably Pinot Noir terroir but the Aligoté vines are planted in […]

Jean-Claude Boisset Hautes-Côtes de Nuits 2014

13.5%abv, Nuits-Saint-Georges (Côte d’Or), imported by Boisset America, St. Helena, CA. Cork closure: natural. Biodynamic calendar: opened on a flower day. What is Hautes-Côtes de Nuits? It is the high vines in the foggy hills west of more famous terroir and villages such as Vosne-Romanée and Nuits-St-Geroges. Trained high on trellises to take advantage of […]

Jean-Claude Boisset Bourgogne Aligoté ‘Les Moutots’ 2018

13.5% abv, Les Ursulines at Nuits-Saint-Georges (Cote d’Or), imported by Boisset Collection USA, St. Helena, CA. Aligoté, the other white grape from Bourgogne, in fact shares the same parentage as Chardonnay. Sisters and progeny of Pinot Noir x Gouais Blanc, Aligoté and Chardonnay can both produce acid-driven wines with notes of mineral and stonefruit, although […]

Château de Pierreux Brouilly Grand Réserve 2017

14.5% abv, Maison de Pierreux, Odenas, imported by Boisset Collection USA, St. Helena, CA At the foot of the glistening blue granite Mont Brouilly, the Boisset family have a majestic 200-hectare property of goblet-trained Gamay Noir vines surrounding a 13th century fairytale castle. The vines are farmed organically with biodynamic conversion ongoing, and the wines […]

Domaine de la Vougeraie Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru ‘Les Damodes’ 2017

13% abv, Famille Boisset, Prémeaux-Prissey, imported by Boisset America, St-Helena, CA. The Prémeaux-Prissey address of Boisset’s DdlV is a quiet cellar striving toward’s greatness, and has been well recognized as one of the top domaines in Burgundy by the likes of Atkin, Morris and Meadows. Under the direction of Sylvie Poillot, the winemaking team features […]