POUILLY FUISSÉ

2012 La Roche Domaine Daniel Barraud

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
Village Pouilly Fuissé
ABV 13%
Vineyard La Roche

As so often at an early stage the la Roche is restrained, concentratedly mineral and firm, an iron bar - all linear directedness. The finish fans out a little, but this is still in its severe stage and needs two of three years to 'lighten up'. It will! L&S (Jan 2014)


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The 2012 Pouilly Fuissé la Roche comes from vines located in a sunny exposition at around a 350-meter altitude. It has a more mineral-driven bouquet: tense but tightly wound with touches of limestone and chalk. The palate has very good depth and cohesion, with hints of marmalade and orange peel, flecks of cumin and white pepper toward the vibrant finish that is guaranteed to leave the customer satisfied. Drinking range: 2014 - 2022 Rating: 93 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Oct 2014)

Rating: 93 Tim Atkin MW, www.timatkin.com (Jan 2014)

Nutty, smoky, austere citrus fruit. Touch of apple. Very savoury and compact. No oak influence – pure and plentiful fruit. 2014-2022 Rating: 17 Richard Hemming MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2014)

Domaine Barraud

We still see Daniel Barraud when we visit but today his children Julien and Anaïs are at the helm here now. They have vineyards in Vergisson that are mostly high up under the famous rock (Vergisson lies between the two dramatic cliffs of the rocks of Solutré and Vergisson). The vineyards here are significantly higher than those of Fuissé, and are consequently later-ripening, and the wines often have a more solid structure - but they each have their own distinct characters, from the Puligny-like directness of the La Roche to the fat richness of the 'en Buland', via the mineral force of the Crays.

All the wines are made keeping close to the tenets of bio-dynamics - not for the sake of it - but because over the generations experience has taught them that these principles really are the best way forward - as such they only ever bottle on a waning moon. All the wines see some barrel ageing apart from the Chaintré, which is aged in foudre (2/3) and tank.

As Allen Meadows wrote on www.Burghound.com 'I have said this before, but I will say it again: no one makes better wine in the Mâconnais than Barraud. There are a few domaines that produce wines that are sometimes just as good, ... but none of them surpasses the quality he consistently produces. If you aren’t familiar with the wines, you owe it to yourself and your pocketbook to check them out.'

With the 2022 releases this 11 HA domaine is now officially certified organic. Formalising the way they have been working for years.

The Barrauds have four vineyards that have been upgraded to Premier Cru status: 'En France', 'Les Crays', 'Sur la Roche', and la Verchère, although this last one will change its name to 'La Maréchaude' but retaining the parcel name of Verchère too. It's one of those oddities of such classifications that the vineyard which has consistently produced the Barraud's best wine for all the years that we have known them, 'En Buland', is not classified Premier Cru status as it faces north - this is electric in 2022.

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