MÂCON VERGISSON

2017 La Roche Domaine Daniel Barraud

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
District Mâconnais
Village Mâcon Vergisson
ABV 13%
Vineyard La Roche

As usual the class if this vineyard on the slopes of the rock of Vergisson itself shows through in a concentrated and mineral wine. There's a core of creamy almond, lovely richness and freshness and power and a touch of saline which adds even more to the fresh savoury finish. Drinking range: 2019 - 2025 L&S (Nov 2018)


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Sweet and fun even if not the subtlest. Go here for pleasure and richness. GV Drinking range: 2019 - 2023 Rating: 16.5 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2019)

The 2017 Mâcon-Vergisson La Roche shows a touch of dilution on the nose and doesn’t quite enrapture the senses like Barraud’s other 2017s. The palate is rounded on the entry, with good volume, but I would like to see more tension and grip. It feels a little flabby on the finish, and I wonder just how representative this bottle is. I will defer scoring for now. Rating: 0 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jan 2019)

(this vineyard abuts the Pouilly-Fuissé vineyard of La Roche). This is aromatically quite similar to the Mâcon-Fuissé though the floral component is even more pronounced. There is good mid-palate density to the delicious and polished medium weight flavors that offer a hint of salinity on the sneaky long finish that is both clean and dry. This has better underlying material but no better complexity, which is not usually the case. 2020+ Rating: 87-89 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Oct 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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