2021 Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Beaune, Clos de la Perrière, Domaine Sébastien Magnien

2021 Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Beaune, Clos de la Perrière, Domaine Sébastien Magnien

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2021 Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Beaune, Clos de la Perrière, Domaine Sébastien Magnien

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Sébastien's 2021 Clos de la Perrière, made from vines planted in 1964, is a remarkably serious wine and shows the potential of the Hautes-Côtes. Intensely aromatic with purple fruits and floral notes, it has a chalky structure that should reward 5 to 10 years of cellaring. Drink 2024-2030.

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Jasper Morris MW87-89/100
A fuller purple, while the bouquet represents a big step up. Slightly more extraction and new wood to bring out the potential. Deep raspberry with some wood tannins and quite high acidity. Not yet together but definitely promising.

Drink 2024-2027

Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy (January 2023) Read more

About this WINE

Sebastien Magnien

Sebastien Magnien

No relation to the Côte de Nuits Magniens, young Sébastien comes instead from Meloisey in the Hautes Cotes de Beaune – a village whose wines were as well thought of as those of Volnay in the 14th century, and were served at the coronation of King Philip II Augustus in 1180.

However to be in the thick of things Sébastien has transferred headquarters to revamped cellars in the middle of Meursault. White wines come from the Hautes Côtes, St Romain and Meursault, the red wines from Volnay, Pommard and the Hautes Côtes including an excellent Clos des Perrières from Meloisey.

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

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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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