2013 SAINT VÉRAN Les Pommards Domaine Daniel Barraud, Lea & Sandeman

SAINT VÉRAN

2013 Les Pommards Domaine Daniel Barraud

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
Village Saint Véran
ABV 13%
Vineyard Les Pommards

Bigger on the nose with oak, fennel, fig and rich citrus. Lovely rich weighty mouthfeel, creamy oak, citrus, peach, then great acidity giving lovely balance, coming together nicely. L&S (Dec 2014)


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(picked before the rain, as these vines normally ripen early): Pale yellow. The nose projects an exotic fruit salad ripeness but with good lift. Fat and slightly truffley, offering immediate appeal; the richest of these Saint-Véran wines, but enlivened by a lemon curd flavor. Not complex but has good stuffing and length. These 2013s can't match the 2014s here for salinity, aromatic purity or thrust--but then that's true at a majority of addresses in the Mâconnais. Drinking range: 2015 - 2017 Rating: 88 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Dec 2015)

(from vines situated in Davayé, planted in rocky, high limestone content soil which abuts the Pouilly-Fuissé vineyard of Le Pommard on the edge of Vergisson and Solutré). Strong reduction presently dominates the nose though there is good freshness and verve to the intense and admirably concentrated middle weight flavors that possess good if not special depth but lovely length. I like the dry but not austere finish and this too should be more than just interesting in a few years. 2018+ Rating: 88-91 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2015)

Rating: 90 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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