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Code: 79437
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| Rating: | 92 Pts Pierre Rovani - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate | Size: | 750ML |
| Region: | Burgundy | Country: | France |
| Varietals: | Chardonnay | ABV: | 14% |
Cellar Tracker Link(s):
92 Pts Pierre Rovani - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate |
"Originally reviewed from tank in The Wine Advocate's issue #138 (rated 90-92), Domaine de la Bongran's 2000 Macon-Villages Cuvee Tradition has fulfilled all expectations. This outstanding, seductive offering explodes from the glass with poached pears, honey, white pepper, spices, mint, and creamed minerals. A plush, broad, concentrated wine, it coats the taster's palate with layers of sweetened herbal teas, spices, pepper, and a myriad of white fruits. This well-focused beauty also reveals an exceptionally long, flavor-packed finish. Anticipated maturity: now-2010." (06/03) |
90 Pts Allen Meadows - Burghound |
"This is a bigger, more powerful, more concentrated and more complex effort compared to the '01, combining an obvious sweetness with an unctuous, sappy and textured flavor profile and an almost chewy finish underpinned by terrific minerality and plenty of buffering acidity. There is sufficient sweetness that this is borderline off dry in style yet it offers compelling balance and length." (4th quarter, 2003) |
90 Pts Stephen Tanzer - Vinous Media |
"Superripe aromas of candied orange peel, honey, truffle and marzipan. Fat, lush, rich and mouthfilling but fairly dry. Still a bit youthfully aggressive but this very young wine boasts good inner-mouth energy and excellent length." (02/04) |
Description:
"A special library release of Macon-Villages. When the AOC was created in 1999, the text said the wines had to have less than 2 grams of residual sugar. So the three best producers (Goyard, Thevenet and Guillemot-Michel) were prevented from using the new AOC, since their wines almost always go above 2 grams of sugar."
"Came the heat wave of 2003, and everybody had RS in their wines, including the coop. So the text was revised and the three estates de facto included."
"Vire-Clesse covers the vineyards along the same slope along the plain of the Saone river (premieres cotes), the villages are Montbellet, Vire and Clesse. Roally has vines in Montbellet and Vire, Bongran in Clesse."
"Goyard used to label Macon-Montbellet and Macon-Vire, then for vintages 1999 to 2002, he used Macon-Village (singular.) Thevenet "declassified" Bongran to a simple Macon, rather than Macon-Villages (Macon-Vire was not allowed at the time.)" - Importer
Producer:
"Joe Dressner:
Tasting Henri Goyard's Macon-Vire for the first time, in 1987, was a true revelation. We were stunned: the local coops' wines were correct at best, the handful of estate-made Macons we had tasted, a notch superior, and the barrel-fermented Chardonnays from the Cote d'Or had not prepared us for this experience. This wine was rich, lush, intensely fruity and fat, with marvelous weight and length. It was powerful, yet fresh and lively, and its aromas of buttery, roasted nuts lingered on."
"After the 2000 vintage, Goyard retired, and his estate went to Gautier Thevenet, son of Jean of Domaine de la Bongran in Clesse. The 14 acres of old vines continue to be plowed, do not see herbicides, fertilizers and anything other than copper and sulfur for treatment. There have been a few changes, the harvest is slightly later than before, the stainless-steel tanks are horizontal rather than vertical, and bottling is done after 15 ot 16 months in vat rather than 11. There is the same natural richness of flavor and ripeness in these grapes, and the wines follow the same pattern of slow alcoholic fermentation, ending with some residual sugar."
"When the Vire-Clesse AOC was created 10 years ago, the statutes required a totally dry wine (less than 3 grams of residual sugar), so Domaine de Roally, Domaine de la Bongran, and Domaine Guillemot-Michel were excluded from it. For a while, the ex Macon-Vire was labelled Macon-Village. Then came the summer of 2003, so hot that the grapes ripened too high, and that the entire region produced wines with a lot of residual sugar. Domaine de Roally could now label its wine Vire-Clesse. On the other hand, the wine authorities have stripped some villages of the right to use their names, in order to "simplify" the list of Macons available: the other part of the Roally estate, located in the village of Montbellet, has recently lost its right to a named village on its label, becoming a Macon-Villages."
"Fortunately, all these arcane administrative rules do not affect the quality of the wine. The superb location of the vines on a limestone ridge overlooking the plain of the Saone river, the vines' old mix of different strands of Chardonnay, their age and condition, then a simple but careful vinification make for a powerful, yet complex and delicate wine. Delicious in its youth, it also ages gracefully, acquiring more intense roasted notes, and sometimes, the deeply mineral character often associated with Riesling, rather than Chardonnay." - Importer
This wine was also rated 83 Points by the Wine Spectator.
