2020 Pernand-Vergelesses Blanc, Domaine Rollin Père & Fils, Burgundy

2020 Pernand-Vergelesses Blanc, Domaine Rollin Père & Fils, Burgundy

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2020 Pernand-Vergelesses Blanc, Domaine Rollin Père & Fils, Burgundy

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Description

This is from 2.5 hectares in the cool valley. The wine is fermented and raised in a 50-50 split of 228- and 400-litre barrels. The latter preserves freshness, minimising the impact of the 5% new oak. The attack is fresh, lemony and mineral, with good weight for a village wine and a nice herbal twist to finish.

Drink 2022 - 2027

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Critics reviews

Jasper Morris MW88/100

Bottled in mid-September. The nose is not quite as extrovert as the Hautes Côtes de Beaune and the fruit is whiter on the palate. Certainly ripe, a touch of liquorice, some warmth, but this works and has kept some Pernand-Vergelesses. Stocky but well-made.

Jasper Morris MW, InsideBurgundy.com (October 2021)

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Burghound87/100

From En Caradeux, Belles Filles and Sur Herbeaux.

This is also aromatically cool and pure with its array of citrus confit, poached apple and white peach scents. The concentrated medium-bodied flavours are rich to the point of opulence while displaying reasonably good detail on the bitter lemon-inflected finish that exudes a touch of warmth. This could use better depth, yet it is so forward already that it's not clear how much will develop in such a short window.

Drink from 2024 onward

Allen Meadows, Burghound.com (June 2022)

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Neal Martin, Vinous88-90/100

The 2020 Pernand Vergelesses Blanc has a well-defined nose, beeswax and white flowers, and light toffee apple scents emerging with time. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, quite tensile at the beginning, though it becomes more pithy and waxier-textured towards the finish. Fine.

Drink 2024 - 2032

Neal Martin, Vinous.com (January 2022)

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Jancis Robinson MW16/20

More floral than most on the nose. Pretty, slightly sweet wine. A charmer. Lemon cough pastille flavour.

Drink 2023 - 2029

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (January 2022)

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About this WINE

Domaine Rollin

Domaine Rollin

This is a fourth-generation domaine, Raymond Rollin having been joined by his son Maurice in 1955, followed by Rémi from 1976 and Simon from 2003. The vineyard holdings stretch as far as neighbouring Aloxe, Savigny and Chorey, but the core of the domaine is in Pernand-Vergelesses including white premier cru Sous Frétille and reds Vergelesses, Fichots and Ile de Vergelesses. There is also 0.42 hectare of Corton-Charlemagne. This is a sound source of long-lived wines in both colours.

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

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Pernand Vergelesses

Pernand Vergelesses

Pernand-Vergelesses is a beautiful, small village tucked away behind the hill of Corton. Coming from Beaune, you have the Vergelesses and excellent Ile des Vergelesses vineyards on your left, facing due east, and the Corton-Charlemagne vineyards on the right, facing south-west. The red wines of Pernand (60 percent of production), excepting the two Vergelesses vineyards, can be on the austere side while the whites are racy and mineral.

Pernand-Vergelesses is an excellent source for fine Burgundy at a relatively affordable price. Jadot have registered their own name, Le Clos de la Croix de Pierre (The Stone Cross), in a vineyard which is shown on the maps as En Caradeux, facing the mighty hill of Corton. The lower part of the slope is an excellent site for Pinot Noir, while whites are grown on lighter soils higher up.

 

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Chardonnay

Chardonnay

Chardonnay is often seen as the king of white wine grapes and one of the most widely planted in the world It is suited to a wide variety of soils, though it excels in soils with a high limestone content as found in Champagne, Chablis, and the Côte D`Or.

Burgundy is Chardonnay's spiritual home and the best White Burgundies are dry, rich, honeyed wines with marvellous poise, elegance and balance. They are unquestionably the finest dry white wines in the world. Chardonnay plays a crucial role in the Champagne blend, providing structure and finesse, and is the sole grape in Blanc de Blancs.

It is quantitatively important in California and Australia, is widely planted in Chile and South Africa, and is the second most widely planted grape in New Zealand. In warm climates Chardonnay has a tendency to develop very high sugar levels during the final stages of ripening and this can occur at the expense of acidity. Late picking is a common problem and can result in blowsy and flabby wines that lack structure and definition.

Recently in the New World, we have seen a move towards more elegant, better- balanced and less oak-driven Chardonnays, and this is to be welcomed.

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