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SAINT VÉRAN

2022 En Crèches Domaine Barraud

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ChardonnayWhiteFrance,BurgundyCertified OrganicMâconnaisSaint Véran 13.5%En Crèches

SE facing. Ripe apple and pear nose, like sticking your nose into apple compote. Zesty lemon, rich and ripe ginger spiciness. Fabulous acidity and zip. Very accomplished. Fabulous core of power and energy. Massive jump up in expression and power here. L&S (Dec 2023)

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The 2022 Saint-Véran En Crêche articulates its terroir extremely well, crushed stone intermixed with Crustacea and almost slate-like scents. Fine precision. The palate is well balanced with a crisp entry, then it dovetails into slightly richer, tropical fruit while never impeding the terroir expression. This is very well crafted with plenty of character. Drinking range: 2024 - 2032 Rating: 90 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jun 2024)

Located in Davayé. One third has been made in barrel with 15% new wood. A little fuller in colour and much denser on the nose, though this has been slightly flattened by a whiff of sulphur which will soon dissipate. Pretty intense but at the moment not the joy of Arpège. Drink from 2025-2028. Tasted: March 2024. Drinking range: 2025 - 2028 Rating: **** Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (Mar 2024)

After a run of Chablis, this shows the riper fruit profile of vineyards further south. Also herbal and a touch peppery. Mouth-watering acidity balancing the generous fruit, crisp and rounded at the same time. Lots of fruity pleasure leading to a nicely dry finish. Drinking range: 2025 - 2027 Rating: 16 Julia Harding MW, www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2024)

(from vines in Davayé). Here too there is just enough wood lurking in the background of the ripe and more floral-suffused aromas of pear and apple to merit pointing out. There is slightly better underlying vibrancy to the delicious and nicely detailed middleweight flavors that conclude in a youthfully austere and attractively dry finale. This too should drink well young but a year or two of keeping should help to add depth. Drinking range: 2025 - Rating: 87-90 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Oct 2023)

The 2022 Saint-Véran En Crêche, a climat that tends to have higher clay content, has a tighter nose than the Arpège, yet with more precision and complexity, crushed stone commingling with Anjou pear and peach skin. The palate has real weight and presence, good depth and grip, with ginger and white pepper on the mid-palate. The 80% used oak probably needs a year to assimilate fully. A touch of blood orange and strawberry pops up on the aftertaste. Very fine. Drinking range: 2024 - 2032 Rating: 90 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jun 2023)

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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