Platinum

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Platinum Best in Category Platinum Best in Category Red Côte de over £15 Red Côte de Nuits over £15 Jaffelin, Les Duresses 1er Cru, Domaine de la Vougeraie, Clos de Auxey-Duresses 2013 (12.5%) Grand Cru 2014 (13%) Expressive wild strawberry, cranberry, thyme and violet An explosion of wild strawberry and blackberry fruit on the aromas explode from this classy . Svelte, crunchy red nose with an array of florals and toasty oak notes. The fruit on the palate, and an impressive tannin structure. Lots palate is big, bold and juicy with velvety, structured tannins of energy follows through to a long and impressive finish. and a masterly fruit and oak balance. Tasting wonderful now £30 Burdett Wines, Cambridge Wine Merchants, Firth & Co, but will be even more impressive in the future. Hayward Bros, Hennings, The Oxford Wine Co, The Wine Co, £110 Berry Bros & Rudd Vineyards of Sherborne POA Boisset Collection (USA) $43 Matinicus Wines (USA) Tasted against n Albert Bichot, Bonnes-Mares 2013 n Albert Bichot, Tasted against n Albert Bichot, Hospices de Beaune Cuvée Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2014 n Château De Santenay, Les Docteur Peste, Grand Cru 2012 n Domaine Yves Girardin, Pruliers 1er Cru, Nuits-St-Georges 2014 n Château de Château de la Charrière, Les Vignots, Santenay, Grand Cru 2014 n 2013 n Jean-Luc & Paul Aegerter, Reserve Domaine de la Vougeraie, Bonnes-Mares 2014 Personnelle, Pommard 1er Cru 2014 n Jaffelin, Chambolle 2013 n Labouré- What the perfume business lost, the wine Roi, Chambolle Musigny 2014 industry gained. Marinette Garnier (pictured Head for the top of the east-facing slope, above) was born in Burgundy and was planning walk left off the alley which leads to the to become a ‘nose’, but found herself studying Château du Clos de Vougeot, and that’s the oenology at Univeristy. Domaine de la Vougeraie vineyard. It is just Her first , during her studies, was over1ha within the 50ha clos, on a soil of in in 2007, and she joined silt, pebbles and chalk, and produces 6,000 Jaffelin in 2011. This négociant and wine bottles of this Platinum winner annually. producer, created by two brothers in The domaine was created in 1999 by 1816, is based in Beaune and owns a Jean-Claude Boisset, who was born in the winery in Nuits-St-Georges. village of Vougeot. He consolidated all Her vision for this Platinum-winning the vineyard holdings he had acquired wine is to show what from in Burgundy over the years, which Burgundy means to her. Fruit comes straddle 30 appellations and six grand from low-yielding, 80-year-old vines on cru vineyards, with a total production Jaffelin’s softly sloping 0.75ha parcel of of 150,000 bottles. Farming has been the Les Duresses premier cru at the biodynamic for 15 years. entrance of the Combe de Monthélie. Winemaker Pierre Vincent says his Soils are the local limestone philosophy is ‘delicate’, and he aims is and the east-facing vines to reflect the typicity of the terroir in benefit from northerly winds. It’s the his wines. For this wine, Vincent looks combination of the old vines, the to bottle ‘nothing less than the power vineyard’s location and the soil that is and finesse that this 50-year-old reponsible for the success of the wine, vineyard represents’. Garnier says. ➢

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