2010 Côtes de Nuits-Villages, Domaine Denis Bachelet, Burgundy

2010 Côtes de Nuits-Villages, Domaine Denis Bachelet, Burgundy

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2010 Côtes de Nuits-Villages, Domaine Denis Bachelet, Burgundy

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Top Value Wines from the 2010 Vintage
(from 4 different parcels in Brochon that now total about .37 ha). A ripe, pure and relatively elegant nose of very dark pinot fruit with plenty of earth and underbrush nuances that add breadth. There is an impressive amount of dry extract to the mouth coating and velvety medium-bodied flavors that possess a seductive texture on the balanced and attractively complex finish. It’s rare to see this level of quality from this appellation. 2015+
(Allen Meadows - burghound.com - January 2012)

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Burghound89-91/100
Top Value Wines from the 2010 Vintage
(from 4 different parcels in Brochon that now total about .37 ha). A ripe, pure and relatively elegant nose of very dark pinot fruit with plenty of earth and underbrush nuances that add breadth. There is an impressive amount of dry extract to the mouth coating and velvety medium-bodied flavors that possess a seductive texture on the balanced and attractively complex finish. It’s rare to see this level of quality from this appellation. 2015+
(Allen Meadows - burghound.com - January 2012) Read more
Wine Advocate90-92/100
The 2010 Cote de Nuits-Villages presents lovely floral notes layered into dark blue and black fruits. Hints of spices, licorice and tar develop in the glass, followed by pretty mineral notes that frame the sweet, perfumed finish. This is another gorgeous entry-level wine from Bachelet. Anticipated maturity: 2013-2020.
Antonio Galloni - 29/02/2012 Read more

About this WINE

Domaine Denis Bachelet

Domaine Denis Bachelet

This minute Burgundy wine estate, now reaching just 4ha in size of vineyards in Gevrey-Chambertin, has been run almost single-handedly by the magical Denis Bachelet since 1983. His ability for making pure, graceful wines seems to be entirely natural and he exploits this gift to the full.

Denis was born in 1963 in the town of Spy in Belgium – his father had fallen in love with a local girl when he came to visit Spy on an outing with the Gevrey Chambertin choir! Denis would visit his grandparents in Gevrey in the school holidays and came to love the magic of the vigneron’s world. He became fully involved in winemaking from 1981, shortly after his grandfather’s death: whether fortuitously or not the Bachelet wines were outstanding in ’81, an otherwise damp and difficult vintage, and the Charmes Chambertin remained a joy to drink over the following fifteen years.

La finesse avant tout” – finesse before all things – is Denis Bachelet’s watchword and this shows in every wine he makes. There is more attention paid to yields in the vineyard, a better selection of barrels in the cellar (about one third new oak for the Gevrey Chambertin and 50% for the crus), and a feeling of a man in control of his wines and winery.

Denis of course believes that the quality of the wine comes from his work in the vineyard, which now includes green harvesting whenever a patch of vines threatens to set too heavy a crop. At harvest time the grapes are sorted in the vineyard to remove anything rotten or otherwise dubious, and from 2003 a further triage has been carried out on a new vibrating sorting table.

The grapes are 100% destemmed, then crushed which Denis prefers for colour extraction. After a cool pre-fermentation maceration for up to a week, the vats get to work fermenting the juice with natural yeasts fermentation. As soon as fermentation has finished the contents of the vats are pressed off and left to settle in tank for a week before putting in barrel. Simple but sensible winemaking, amended according to intuition if need be.

Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director and author of the award-winning Inside Burgundy comprehensive handbook.

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Cote de Nuits Villages

Cote de Nuits Villages

The wine appellation of Côte de Nuit Villages in Burgundy includes wines from a small number of villages, mostly in the extreme north and south of the Côte de Nuits: Fixin and Brochon in the north, Comblanchien, Corgoloin and Prissey to the south. The wines are usually red and are often good value.

Côte de Nuits Villages lies above the basic AOC Bourgogne in the hierarchy of local appellations. Hautes-Côtes de Nuits is also mostly red and is produced in the hinterland to the south-west of Nuits-St Georges. 

Recommended producers: Sylvain LoichetPatrice et Michele Rion

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Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or.

Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.

Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.

The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.

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