2023 Bachelet-Monnot Maranges 1er Cru La Fussire, Burgundy, France

ABOUT THIS WINE

A more serious offering than the villages Maranges, with a complex tightly wound fruit set, a fine spine of tannin and this lovely salty dark fruited finish. An excellent cuvee that hails from seven7 different parcels in La Fussiere, vinified separately and in a variety of vessels, with the percentage of whole bunch tailored to each plot. Vines are aged between 10 and 85 years old, energy coming from the former, complexity from the latter. Fermented with an average of 25-35% whole bunches in 2022.

ABOUT THIS PRODUCER

In 2005, brothers Marc and Alexandre Bachelet founded Bachelet-Monnot. In no time, their wines were turning the heads of even the most seasoned Burgundy tasters.

These are revelatory expressions of Burgundy. The amount of finesse and luminous mineral precision that they are able to tease out is astonishing.

The domaine is in Maranges, a village at the southern limit of the Cte de Beaune. In many ways, the brothers work there is the beating heart of the estate. However, they have holdings in some of the greatest sites throughout the Cte de Beaune: St. Aubin 1er Cru En Remilly, Puligny 1er Cru Referts, and Btard-Montrachet.

Its amazing to see such exciting wines stretching from the margins to the pinnacle of Burgundys qualitative universe, from Bourgogne to Grand Cru. This is one of the emerging star domaines of Burgundy.