VIRÉ-CLESSÉ

2009 Sélection EJ Thévenet Domaine de la Bon Gran

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
Village Viré-Clessé
ABV 14%

As ever there is the unmistakable richness of the house style, which gives some honey and some almost candied apricot notes, which plays so well with the bright mineral undertones and delicious truffly tang - simply delicious. L&S (Apr 2015)


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Pale, bright, gold-tinged yellow. Full of life yet youthfully inexpressive on the nose, hinting at dried fruits, grapefruit, menthol and toasted biscuit; this very rich wine seems to be shutting down today. (Gautier Thévenet told me he's finishing selling this wine now but will probably wait another five years to drink it.). The palate shows very ripe fruits along with smoke and saline nuances, with a hint of marzipan suggesting some evolution. Very rich but edgy wine, perhaps passing through an awkward stage today. Drinking range: 2017 - 2024 Rating: 91 Stephen Tanzer, www.vinousmedia.com (Dec 2015)

Domaine de la Bon Gran

The Thévenets' original and flagship domaine, in which Jean Thévenet's son Gautier is now formly in charge, still making wines which are rich and ripe and are given no oak at all, and yet which still manage to be the most complex and satisfying wines of the Mâconnais.

The main cuvée we ship is his top 'dry' cuvée, called 'Sélection EJ Thévenet', which, after a nervous few years in which wines with over 2g of residual sugar were not admitted into the appellation, is now allowed to be called Viré-Clessé. Gautier also makes tiny quantities of the highly sought-after Cuvée Levroutée, a late-harvest just touched by botrytis with the constitution and depth of a Montrachet, and infinitesimal amounts of his Cuvée Botrytis, a fully sweet Sélection des Grains Nobles style. Organic production.

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