COTE DE
NUITS-WHITE
He's been making wine since he was twelve and getting rave reviews
in the USA recently, so we're pleased we're the first in the UK to have heard
about 27 year-old Cyril Audoin. On one of our visits to Burgundy he
treated us to lunch in a tiny vineyard workers' bistro and was horrified when
one of his own very old bottles was corked! Luckily for us, he ran back to
fetch a replacement. Not much white wine is made on the Cote de Nuits and this
white Marsannay impressed us when we were last there, so here we are with the
new vintage.
Nuits St Georges is one of the scarcest whites on the
Cote de Nuits. Henri Gouges was walking through his vines in the 1920s and
spotted some white grapes on his Pinot Noir vines. He took a cutting and built
up a couple of parcels. ItŐs an oddity – a white wine that ages like a
red wine. If you close your eyes you even get a distant sense of tannin!
Fascinating.
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MARSANNAY Cyril
Audoin |
2006 |
18.99 |