POUILLY FUISSÉ
2016 Vieilles Vignes Les Crays Domaine Daniel Barraud
| Grapes | Chardonnay |
| Colour | White |
| Origin | France, Burgundy |
| District | Mâconnais |
| Village | Pouilly Fuissé |
| ABV | 13% |
| Vineyard | Les Crays |
From Cask. This is immediately more from the earth than the Verchere. A solid feel of hard limestone, underpins the generously weighted fruit. Pure, stony and focused. Nice leaner fruit element. This is firm in contrast, almost austere - but there is so much to admire. Drive, shape, intensity. And a nice layer of softer stuff, some sweet pear flesh to keep it rolling. L&S (Oct 2017)
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(from 60+ year old vines located in Vergisson). A pungent nose once again combines phenolic notes with those of wood and a background hint of reduction. Otherwise there is impressive size, weight and density to the broad-shouldered flavors that are almost chewy thanks to the abundant amount of dry extract, all wrapped in an intensely mineral-driven and attractively dry finish that also flashes a sour-sweet nuance. At least some patience will be beneficial in order to develop more complexity. Worth a look. 2021+ Rating: 91 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Oct 2018)
Notes of citrus zest, white flowers and almond paste introduce the 2016 Pouilly-Fuissé Les Crays Vieilles Vignes, a medium to full-bodied, elegantly textural wine with lovely tension and vertical line, along with all the depth and concentration that Barraud's wines so routinely attain. It isn't as rich and full-bodied as La Verchère, but it's finer-boned and more precise. Drinking range: 2018 - 2028 Rating: 93 William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (Aug 2018)
(from 60+ year old vines located in Vergisson). This too reflects malolactic fermentation aromas today. There is impressive size, weight and density to the broad-shouldered flavors that are almost chewy thanks to the abundant amount of dry extract, all wrapped in an intensely mineral-driven finish. At least some patience will be beneficial in order to develop more complexity. Worth a look. 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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