2017 White Burgundies

From 2 parcels within the vineyard, falling either side of the central ridge: one is a warm site, the other a cool one. Blending them together gives it great complexity and peresonality. There’s a tension here but also so much purity. It shows a lovely fine balance and cool fruit, and rewards the efforts of someone who picked at exactly the right moment in 2017.

This showed brilliantly when tasted blind at Burgfest in July 2017. It was aged in oak (none new), and is regularly the most forward drinking of the Bessin premiers crus. In 2017 it has such a precise and vibrant palate, displaying some very welcome energy and a mouthwatering finish laced with salinity and lemon zest.