2013 POUILLY FUISSÉ Vieilles Vignes En Buland Domaine Daniel Barraud, Lea & Sandeman

POUILLY FUISSÉ

2013 Vieilles Vignes En Buland Domaine Daniel Barraud

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
District Mâconnais
Village Pouilly Fuissé
ABV 13%
Vineyard En Buland

Ripe citrus, scented and bright, touch of honey and toffee. Palate is vibrant and juicy with citrus, toast, nut, lovely bright acidity with mineral grip on the long finish, very fine. L&S (Dec 2014)


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(from fruit picked after the rain): Bright, pale yellow. Exotic but rather subdued lower-pitched aromas of apricot, marzipan, coffee and truffle. Then considerably fresher in the mouth: rich, silky and sweet, and showing much more personality than the nose would suggest. I like the balance of sweetness and acidity here. Finishes with sneaky length and good pliancy. (Barraud opened the 2009 version of this wine at the end of our tasting and it was still quite young, showing a pale yellow color. The rest of my note: Fresh yellow peach aroma complicated by sexy oak spices and a resiny nuance. Rich, broad and concentrated; a bit warm with alcohol (probably close to 14%) but has plenty of fruit to support it. Slightly oaky but classically dry, with the peach fruit avoiding overripeness. Thick and built to last: this will certainly evolve in an interesting direction for another five or six years. 90 points. Drinking range: 2016 - 2019 Rating: 89 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Dec 2015)

(65+ year old vines near Solutré that face north east). A pungent and layered nose is composed by notes of menthol, petrol, white orchard fruit and discreet oak nuances. There is impressive concentration to the relatively powerful and broad-shouldered flavors that are shaped by a lemon-inflected acidity that buffers the opulent and mouth coating finish. This is a big and powerful but balanced wine with bracing acidity but I’m not sure that it’s going to catch the Les Crays and Sur La Roche. 2019+ Rating: 91 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Oct 2015)

Rating: 91 Tim Atkin MW, www.timatkin.com (Jan 2015)

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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