Les Baudes

This wine is a bin-end, discounted by 20%.
The 2016 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Baudes, which comes under the Domaine Gagey label, has a vibrant and fresh, rose petal-scented bouquet with plenty of Morello cherry and crushed strawberry scents. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grain tannin, good tension even if it is just missing some complexity toward the finish, as if running out of ideas two-thirds of the way through.
Neal Martin,The Wine Advocate (winter 2017)

This vineyard is at the northern (Morey) end of Chambolle and immediately under Bonnes-Mares, where Sérafin has two parcels. The wine has plenty of bright fruit and a very positive attack, not especially on the delicate end of Chambolle, but high-quality nonetheless. Drink 2022-2027.

This opens with some lovely bright fruit, but more black fruit in character, than red, more in keeping with the producer than the appellation. Black fruit makes itself evident on the palate too, lovely density and ripeness, “gushing even”, reads my note. A full, crunchy, tannic structure makes sure that this will age well too. A wonderful wine, if not very typically Chambolle.
Chris Pollington - Private Account Manager

Located just below Bonnes Mares, Baudes always shares some of the structure that is found at the Morey side of Champbolle. Serafin's Baudes captures the finesse and perfume of chambolle lightly framed by oak, but with the concentration and muscle of Bonnes Mares and the freshness of 2010. Cellar for at least a decade.

Lying adjacent to Grand Cru Bonnes Mares, on the Morey-St Denis border, the beneficial influence of limestone rock just below the surface is immediately apparent. Theres a firmer delivery, almost an underpinning of iron on the palate, held tight by vibrant minerality. Vin de garde indeed.

Baudes has the same red soils as the northern end of Bonnes-Mares, which sits just above on the hill, but the soils are much shallower. This is quite muscly but still well-defined. It’s extraordinary how many faces there are of Chambolle. Drink 2022-2028. 

Ghislaine Barthod’s domaine originated in the 1920s with Marcel Noëllat whose daughter married Gaston Barthod, a soldier stationed in Dijon who came to buy some wine and got the girl as well. He gave up military life for the vineyards in 1960. His daughter, Ghislaine, and her partner Louis Boillot bought their current premises overlooking Premier Cru Les Feusselottes in 1986. Though they share the team who work the vineyards, the vinification and commercial aspects of their businesses are kept completely separate. The domaine has an incomparable range of ChambolleMusigny terroirs, with eight separate Premier Cru bottlings.

Given the carnage here last year, one could have been concerned that yields might have been high, but these worries were needless. Although there was a certain amount of green harvesting on the younger vines, the old vines (of which there are lots here), if properly pruned and with excess buds eliminated, regulated themselves to reasonable yields well below 50hl/ha. The harvest started on 3rd September and was completed in eight days, with everything beautifully healthy. For Ghislaine, 2016 was about energy; 2017 is about purity.

This vineyard is at the northern (Morey) end of Chambolle and immediately under Bonnes-Mares, where Sérafin has two parcels. This shares some of the generosity of its more esteemed neighbour, with a full mid-palate, but perhaps slightly more freshness and energy to the finish. Drink 2025-2032.