2017 POUILLY FUISSÉ Alliance-Vergisson Domaine Daniel Barraud, Lea & Sandeman

POUILLY FUISSÉ

2018 Alliance-Vergisson Domaine Daniel Barraud

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

The 'Alliance' here is the coming together of 5 parcels: 4 in Vergisson and 1 in Fuissé. All the vines range between 45 - 65 years old. One of the parcels is on clay - 4 on rock. There are some serious raw materials here and some clever, hard craft from Julien. Minerality ruling the nose for now. There's also some toast here, some good wood-spice on the attack. Nicely toasty. Good, tightly furled fruit core. Firm citrus flesh some apple and some pineapple cube crunch. Quite a big boy for now. Nicely complex and lots to get your teeth in to. Complex - powerful and slightly tightish. This complex mix of terroirs is then aged in a range of barrels and tanks to get the exact expression that Julien is after. 1/3 in barrel, 1/3 in Demi-Muids, 1/3 in cuve. Just 10% of the wood is new. L&S (Nov 2019)


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(from three vineyards located in Vergisson and Fuissé). A ripe yet still agreeably fresh nose combines notes of honey, petrol, soft wood and pear liqueur with those of spice and floral wisps. There is very good volume and reasonable mid-palate density to the appealingly textured medium-bodied flavors that possess an opulent mouthfeel, indeed almost oily, before culminating in a mildly sweet and warm finish. I suspect that the sweetness will eventually dissipate but it would be fair to say that this isn’t especially dry. This is already approachable and could easily be enjoyed now. Drinking range: 2022 - Rating: 89 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Oct 2020)

Always one of the more muscular wines in the range, Barraud's 2018 Pouilly-Fuissé “Alliance” Vieilles Vignes has turned out nicely, revealing aromas of honeyed pears, white flowers and fresh pastry. Medium to full-bodied, fleshy and textural, it's ripe but succulent, with a generous core of fruit and broad shoulders. Drinking range: 2020 - 2028 Rating: 90 William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (Jun 2020)

(from three vineyards located in Vergisson and Fuissé). A slightly riper yet still agreeably fresh nose combines notes of petrol, soft wood and pear liqueur with those of spice and floral wisps. There is better volume and mid-palate density to the appealingly textured medium-bodied flavors that possess an opulent mouth feel before culminating in a mildly sweet if persistent finish. I suspect that the sweetness will eventually dissipate but it would be fair to say that this isn’t one of the drier wines in the range. Drinking range: 2023 - Rating: 88-91 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2020)

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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