Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru Cuvée Dames de Flandres 2020

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Region: Côte de Beaune

Village: Chassagne-Montrachet
Level: Grand Cru

AOC: Batard-Montrachet Grand Cru

Grapes: Chardonnay

Color: White

Tasting

Superlative words can rightly be used for this out-of-the-ordinary grand cru. A most delicate nose of white flowers, a touch of honey and citrus. A powerful palate with density and volume. An everlasting finish. Everything is here for this high-level cuvée from the Hospices de Beaune estate.

Food matching

Enjoy on its own with the respect due to this wine, or combine it with high level yet simple fine food. The wine must remain the star.

Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Terres Blanches – Cuvée Pierre de Pème

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Region: Côte de Nuits

Village: Nuits-Saint-Georges
Level: Premier Cru

AOC: Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru

Grapes: Chardonnay

Color: White

Tasting

Coming from the Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Terres Blanches, the Cuvée Pierre de Pème shows a beautiful yellow robe with golden hues. Nose: lemon and tangerine with great vivacity. Some flowers and spices too. Mouth is rich and generous, with a dash of nerve at the end keeping the wine’s vivacity.

Food matching

Enjoy on its own or with a seafood platter, a cod grilled fillet with fennel puree, some old comte mountain cheese

History

Cuvée Pierre de Pème is the only white wine from the Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges.

Terroirs

Les Terres Blanches

Pouilly Fuissé Cuvée Françoise Poisard 2016

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Region: Mâconnais

Village: Pouilly-Fuissé
Level: Village

AOC: Pouilly-Fuissé

Grapes: Chardonnay

Color: White

Tasting

Clear yellow robe with honey tones. Citrusy nose with yellow stone fruits and hint of linden. Fine and enjoyable mouth with good amplitude. A pleasure-driven wine true to its beautiful origins from the Maconnais in South Burgundy.

Food matching

Enjoy on its own at the aperitif, with a few toasts of smoked salmon or dices of mountain cheese (comté). A spinach salad with chopped walnut, seabass filet or dry goat cheese will be a perfect match!

History

The Domaine acquired these vineyards in 1994 and 2012 thanks to Françoise
Poisard’s bequest. The vines are located in Chaintré to the south of the appellation, the majority being 35 to 90 years old. There are 5 plots: Les Plessys gives round and powerful wines, while Les Robées and Les Chevrières give wines of perfumed fruitiness with considerable minerality. La Chatière and Haut de Savy are more richly
structured.

Terroirs

Les Plessys 0.58 ha.,
Les Robées 0.53 ha.,
Les Chevrières 0.4 ha.

Pouilly Fuissé Cuvée Françoise Poisard 2019

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Region: Mâconnais

Village: Pouilly-Fuissé
Level: Village

AOC: Pouilly-Fuissé

Grapes: Chardonnay

Color: White

Tasting

Food matching

History

The Domaine acquired these vineyards in 1994 and 2012 thanks to Françoise Poisard’s bequest. The vines are located in Chaintré to the south of the appellation, the majority being 35 to 90 years old. There are 5 plots: Les Plessys gives round and powerful wines, while Les Robées and Les Chevrières give wines of perfumed fruitiness with considerable minerality. La Chatière and Haut de Savy are more richly structured.

Terroirs

Les Plessys 0.58 ha.,

Les Robées 0.53 ha.,

Les Chevrières 0.4 ha.

Puligny-Montrachet Cuvée Bernard Clerc

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Region: Côte de Beaune

Village: Puligny-Montrachet
Level: Village

AOC: Puligny-Montrachet

Grapes: Chardonnay

Color: White

Tasting

The first aromatic notes reveal already a fine Burgundy wine, with a floral and complex nose (almond, white pepper). Mouth with tension and precision, with a solid backbone that ageing will structure and reveal.

Food matching

Springtime salad with shrimps, aioli, chicken breast in creamy mustard sauce with mushrooms.

History

This cuvée comes from a donation in 2017 by Mr. Bernard Clerc, retired vigneron from Puligny-Montrachet where he owned a significant wine estate. The traditional generosity of the Burgundians is thus clearly as alive as ever in the 21st century.
The cuvée comes from two plots in the climat “les Reuchaux”, on the Meursault side of the village, the vines being planted in 1968 and 1969. Together they comprise 18.96 ares. This is the first donation of vines in Puligny-Montrachet for the Hospices de Beaune.

Terroirs

Les Reuchaux, 0,19 ha.

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Saint-Romain Cuvée Joseph Menault

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Region: Côte de Beaune

Village: Saint-Romain
Level: Village

AOC: Saint-Romain

Grapes: Chardonnay

Color: White

Tasting

Pale yellow colour with green tones. A lot of precision in the nose (lime, hint of grapefruit), followed by a mouth where finesse and intensity combine. The altitude of the terroirs allow it to keep its fresh minerality throughout, defining a beautiful Burgundy.

Food matching

Oysters, octopus salad with coriander, grilled fish, thai spicy soup.

History

This wine is named after a generous benefactor, Joseph Menault, who donated vineyards to the Hôtel-Dieu in 1992. All the vines needed replanting, and this took place in 1994 (le village haut) and 1998 (Sous la Velle). The village of Saint-Romain is situated in a precipitous cleft of hills, just west of Meursault. Over half of this Cuvée comes from a steeply-sloping vineyard, Le Village Haut, located above 400 metres, near the highest point of Saint-Romain. The balance comes from Sous la Velle, 50 meters lower down. Previous vintages tasted display intense perfume, raciness and minerality.

Terroirs

Le Village Haut 0,43 ha.,

Sous la Velle 0,33 ha.

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Pouilly Fuissé Cuvée Françoise Poisard

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Region: Mâconnais

Village: Pouilly-Fuissé
Level: Village

AOC: Pouilly-Fuissé

Grapes: Chardonnay

Color: White

Tasting

Food matching

History

The Domaine acquired these vineyards in 1994 and 2012 thanks to Françoise Poisard’s bequest. The vines are located in Chaintré to the south of the appellation, the majority being 35 to 90 years old. There are 5 plots: Les Plessys gives round and powerful wines, while Les Robées and Les Chevrières give wines of perfumed fruitiness with considerable minerality. La Chatière and Haut de Savy are more richly structured.

Terroirs

Les Plessys 0.58 ha.,

Les Robées 0.53 ha.,

Les Chevrières 0.4 ha.

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Meursault Cuvée Loppin

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Region: Côte de Beaune

Village: Meursault
Level: Village

AOC: Meursault

Grapes: Chardonnay

Color: White

Tasting

This cuvée has a fine pale primrose colour, full of energy. With attractive fruit and flowers together on the nose, this has the full-on density of classic village Meursault, with a sense of the nuttiness which will develop with time in bottle. The acid balance is just right too.

Food matching

Traditional gougères, mussels in creamy sauce with hebs, grilled fish with fennel.

History

Several members of the Loppin family made gifts to the two establishments: Hôtel-Dieu and Hospice de la Charité. Jéhan Loppin, Archdeacon, in 1656 received Queen Christina of Sweden on the square in front of the Collegiate church of Beaune. Two years later, he pronounced a harangue to Queen Mother Anne of Austria with her son, King Louis XIV, le Roi- Soleil, who signed his name in the book of the Confrérie du Saint- Esprit, at the Hôtel-Dieu. A part of this Cuvée comes from Premier Cru (Les Cras), the other half from village level Les Criots. The Premier Cru Les Gras vines date from 1980. 0.2 ha. of Les Criots were planted in 1997, the balance (0.36 ha.) in 2009.

Terroirs

Les Criots 0.56 ha.,

Les Cras Premier Cru 0.17 ha.

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Meursault Genevrières 1er Cru Cuvée Baudot

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Region: Côte de Beaune

Village: Meursault
Level: Premier Cru

AOC: Meursault Genevrières 1er Cru

Grapes: Chardonnay

Color: White

Tasting

A pale bright clear primrose, the bouquet shows some delicious ripe pear fruit, almond and dried fruits, but the underlying lacy detail of fine Genevrières is sitting clearly underneath. A little touch of warmth behind, with good persistence of the fruit.

Food matching

Salmon maki, shrimps in curry sauce, Beaufort or blue cheeses.

History

Félix Baudot, born 1796, was a great collector of paintings, stained glass, antique stela. These objects were sold by public auction in Beaune in 1882, all proceeds coming to the Hospices de la Charité. This Cuvée comes in equal parts from Genevrières dessous and dessus. The vines are all fully mature or ancient. The youngest (23% of the Cuvée) date from 1979, all the others being older – from 1944, 1948, 1956 and 1964.

Terroirs

Genevrières du Dessus,

Genevrières du Dessous

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Meursault Genevrières 1er Cru Cuvée Philippe le Bon

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Region: Côte de Beaune

Village: Meursault
Level: Premier Cru

AOC: Meursault Genevrières 1er Cru

Grapes: Chardonnay

Color: White

Tasting

Fine pale lemon colour. This has plenty of ripe fruit and flowers (rose, peony) evident from the start. The fruit continues beautifully across the palate, freshening up towards the back, with an excellent integration of fine-boned acidity and fruit right at the finish. Very persistent, this cuvée is always something special.

Food matching

Grilled lobster, cheese soufflé, veal roast, saint-nectaire cheese.

History

This Cuvée pays homage to Philippe le Bon Duke of Burgundy (1419- 1467), who gave his backing and authority to Chancellor Nicolas Rolin, during the latter’s establishment of the Hôtel-Dieu, from 1443. It is regularly one of the fnest whites, and fercely contested at auction. The Genevrières dessous section was half planted in 1978, half in 2001, with the dessus section dating from 2009.

Terroirs

Genevrières dessous 0.44 ha.,

Genevrières dessus 0.13 ha.

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