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. It’s 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.

 

MARSANNAY  Cyril Audoin

2006

18.99