2016 POUILLY FUISSÉ Vieilles Vignes En Buland Domaine Daniel Barraud, Lea & Sandeman

POUILLY FUISSÉ

2016 Vieilles Vignes En Buland Domaine Daniel Barraud

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

From Cask. Tea cakes and toasty notes on the nose some plump raisins. Then electric on palate. Pert, zip to the limey pithy juice. Much less bulk than you might expect. Saline minerality. More concentrated, more power - but all the time nicely taut. Nicely direct and energetic. Impressive stuff. Big and powerful, but done subtly. L&S (Oct 2017)


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(65+ year old vines near Solutré that face north east). Once again there are plenty of phenolic and wood toast aromas that dominate the nose. This is almost always the biggest wine in the Barraud range and so it is again in 2016 with its imposingly-scaled and powerful flavors that flash plenty of sleek muscularity on the moderately complex but remarkably persistent finish that is also bone dry and ever-so-mildly warm. Like most of these examples of Pouilly-Fuissé the depth is a work in progress but thanks to the density of the underlying material more should almost certainly develop. 2021+ Rating: 91 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Oct 2018)

As is often the case, the 2016 Pouilly-Fuissé En Buland Vieilles Vignes is the greatest wine in Barraud's cellar—and one of the wines of the vintage in the Mâconnais. Wafting from the glass with a classy bouquet of citrus oil, white flowers, iodine and smoke, it's full-bodied, pure and tensile, with a satiny attack, amazing depth and dimension, concluding with a long, racy finish. This is a stunning Pouilly-Fuissé produced from the domaine's oldest vines in a north-facing lieu-dit. Its quality makes a mockery of the appellation's new premiers crus, as at the time of writing, En Buland is denied the classification by virtue of the very exposition that gives it such an advantage in the Mâconnais's generous climate. Let's hope that the INAO remedy that error. Drinking range: 2018 - 2030 Rating: 94 William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (Aug 2018)

(65+ year old vines near Solutré that face north east). Once again there is plenty of funky reduction and residual malo aromas that dominate the nose. This is almost always the biggest wine in the Barraud range and so it is again in 2016 with its imposingly-scaled and powerful flavors that flash plenty of sleek muscularity on the moderately complex but remarkably persistent finish. Like most of these examples of Pouilly-Fuissé the depth is a work in progress but thanks to the density of the underlying material more should almost certainly develop. Drinking range: 2021 - Rating: 90-92 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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