SAINT VÉRAN
2020 Les Pommards Domaine Daniel Barraud
Grapes | Chardonnay |
Colour | White |
Origin | France, Burgundy |
Other | Practising Organic |
District | Mâconnais |
Village | Saint Véran |
ABV | 13.5% |
Vineyard | Les Pommards |
12 months in a mix of barrels and demi-muids 20% new wood. Immediately this has real breadth and power in comparison to the more 'agile' en Creches. Broader, fuller and richer - but still a great freshness zips right through the middle. Really delicious blend of joyous weight and sap and yet mineral freshness too. Powerful Saint Veran. L&S (Nov 2021)
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(from vines situated in Davayé, planted in rocky, high limestone content soil which abuts the Pouilly-Fuissé vineyard of Le Pommard on the edge of Vergisson and Solutré). The super-fresh nose freely reveals its aromas of essence of lemon zest, quinine and mineral reduction. The rich and caressing but very punchy middleweight flavors flash plenty of bracing salinity on the bone-dry, focused and linear finish. This is an impressive St. Véran. Drinking range: 2023 - 2026 Rating: 91 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2023)
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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