SAINT VÉRAN

2019 En Crèches Domaine Daniel Barraud

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
District Mâconnais
Village Saint Véran
ABV 14%
Vineyard En Crèches

Already bottled, this has all the usual character on this excellent cuvée from Davayé, mineral, citrus, concentration and length, all in beautiful balance. Drinking range: 2020 - 2025 L&S (Oct 2020)


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The 2019 Saint-Véran En Crèches is a little diffuse on the nose compared to Barraud’s Les Pommards - light, airy apple blossom and dewy meadow scents unfold with time. The palate is well balanced with sour lemon and orange pith on the entry, though it does not quite kick on towards the finish. Drinking range: 2021 - 2023 Rating: 87 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jan 2021)

Sweet and almost sugary on the nose. And then quite marked acidity. Lots of texture and almost hot on the end. Drinking range: 2022 - 2025 Rating: 15.5 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2021)

Recently bottled. Grown on the lower slopes with more clay, and made half in 600 litre demi-muids and half in barrels. Pale lemon colour. Classic nose, a mix of white fruit and something more opulent, so that I was expecting some flesh on the palate. However, the wine is tightly knit, a positive in 2019, and is very well put together, with intense white fruit notes and good length. Rating: 87-90 Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (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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