POUILLY FUISSÉ

2014 Alliance-Vergisson Domaine Daniel Barraud

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

Tauter citrus, mineral, aniseed nose with some oak, palate is fuller, greater flesh to the peach and fig fruit, acidity still driving pallet but a more generous wine with a butterscotch toasty oak finish. L&S (Nov 2015)


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Bright light-medium yellow. Fresh apricot and peach aromas are complemented by smoky oak. Fruit flavors of lemon and pineapple are enlivened by a mineral touch. Conveys a very fine-grained, old-vines richness without any impression of weight. Finishes firm and long, with repeating minerality and strong lemon zest energy Drinking range: 2018 - 2024 Rating: 90 Stephen Tanzer, www.vinousmedia.com (Oct 2016)

The 2014 Pouilly-Fuissé Alliance Vieilles Vignes has impressive intensity on the nose, a little more honeyed than its peers, perhaps a touch more tropically inclined and yet it retains admirable delineation. The palate is very well balanced with crisp green apple, fresh pear and apricot on the entry. Beautifully balanced and complex, it just sashays across the mouth and delivers a wonderfully intense, mineral-driven finish. I would have just liked a little more reserve and mineralité on the nose but let's see how this develops in bottle. Drinking range: 2017 - 2029 Rating: 90 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jan 2016)

(from four parcels between 40 and 60 years of age, three of them in Vergisson and the other in Fuissé): Pale yellow. Aromas of underripe pineapple and crushed stone are complicated by subtle oak tones. Concentrated but quite closed today, showing a touch of sweetness and sexy stony lift to its fine-grained citrus and pineapple flavors. This rather large-scaled but restrained wine will not be immediately drinkable. Rating: 88-90 Stephen Tanzer, www.vinousmedia.com (Dec 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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