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POUILLY FUISSÉ

2016 Alliance-Vergisson Domaine Daniel Barraud

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

Good clean sweeping attack. This is clean cut yet broad and enveloping. Weighted but bright. Interesting. I really like the spice hit of ginger, the soft 'pain d'epice' note. This does does fan out on the finish and the fruit weight builds. Definitely Pouilly! L&S (Dec 2017)


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(from three vineyards located in Vergisson and Fuissé). This is reduced at present and in need of aeration if you’re going to try a bottle young. On the plus side there is slightly better verve if not quite the concentration to the medium-bodied flavors that possess a sumptuous mouth feel while culminating in a juicy and punchy if not especially complex tangy sour-sweet finish. 2020+ Rating: 89 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Oct 2018)

A chunkier, more foursquare wine, the 2016 Pouilly-Fuissé “Alliance” Vieilles Vignes offers up a youthfully reserved bouquet of yellow orchard fruit, peach and flowers. On the palate, it's full-bodied, rich and dense, with serious mid-palate density and substance, underpinned by juicy balancing acids. Its élevage is divided equally between stainless steel tank, demi-muids and barrels. Note that this year the blend includes the Barrauds' holdings in Les Chataigniers, which were struck hard by hail and likely contribute additional richness to the cuvée. Drinking range: 2018 - 2026 Rating: 90+ William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (Aug 2018)

(from three vineyards located in Vergisson and Fuissé). This too is very firmly reduced at present. On the plus side there is slightly better verve if not quite the concentration though even so the mouth feel is lavish and even sumptuous while culminating in a juicy and punchy if not especially complex finish. That said, I suspect that this powerful effort will develop more depth if it is allowed a few years of cellar time first. Drinking range: 2020 - Rating: 88-91 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2018)

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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