Meursault Vieilles Vignes. Dom. Guy Bocard - 2020

Name: Meursault Vieilles Vignes. Dom. Guy Bocard
Brand: Guy Bocard
SKU: 48833
Price: 81.96 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 48833 750mL

A full-bodied and lush Meursault this has all the intensity you expect from Meursault, yes is actually quite approachable today. Culled from four parcels in the north of Meursault-En la barre, Les Durots, Les Malpoiriers, and Les Dressoles. Élévage takes place in Burgundian oak for one year, and then 6 months in stainless steel. With notes of citrus, toast, nuts, and white flowers, this round dry white will pair perfectly with tsukune.

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Color

White

Vintage

2020

Country

France

Region

Burgundy

Sub-Region

Côte de Beaune

Appellation/Village

Meursault

Producer

Guy Bocard

Grape Variety

Chardonnay

Production Methods

Organic

Practicing Organic

Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard.

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Staff Pick Notes

Since the mid-70s Guy Bocard has been quietly making finely crafted wines from his base in the village of Meursault. Recently he brought in one of Burgundy's star winemakers, Philippe Pacalet, and his son, so his under-the-radar status isn't likely to last long. He has 8 hectares made up of 25 individual plots, all farmed organically. The Vieilles Vignes comes from four parcels with vines more than 30 years old. Aged in French oak for one year, then 6 months in stainless steel, this wine is a showstopper. There's a touch of oak with lemon, butter and almonds and an electric acidity that keeps it all lifted. It's intense and beautifully complex without being heavy. It's everything you want a Meursault to be.

- ALM

Glossary

Burgundy

The range of wine styles offered in Burgundy rivals that of any other region. In Chablis, Chardonnay is left unoaked to produce lean, crisp, steely wines with incredible acidity - a far cry from the vanilla-oak bombs that so many consumers associate with this grape. Fans of rich, unctuous, and well-oaked Chardonnay will enjoy Chassagne-Montrachet, whose age-worthy offerings offer all the fatness of a California wine, yet retain a very Burgundian, mineral-driven core and great acidity....

Chardonnay

From Champagne to Chablis, it's hard (not to mention unpleasant) to avoid this famous white variety. During a huge popularity surge beginning in the late 1980s, Chardonnay plantings have increased dramatically -- not only in California's wine country, with which the variety is nearly synonymous, but also in Burgundy (its original, Old World home) and just about everywhere else in the winemaking world. It is a flexible, eager-to-please grape, responding well to just about anything a winemaker...