2009 & 2010 New Releases
GUILHEM ET JEAN-HUGUES Goisot “No one but no one delivers more quality for the price than Goisot. The quality is flat out amazing, particularly given the modest appellations with which he works.” Allen Meadows, Burghound, 2011. “Simply stunning...here, surely, is one of the greatest Domaines of the Yonne...” Le Grand Guide des Vins de France, 2011. 2009 & 2010 NEW RELEASES Below we offer the coveted and remarkably priced new vintages from the ‘Pope of St Bris’. Pure, textural, limestone-enriched Chardonnay and vinous Sauvignons from St-Bris and Côte d’Auxerre. Piquant, lacy Pinot Noir from Irancy and Côte d’Auxerre. Two top-drawer vintages; pulsatingly mineral 2009s and intense, low yielding and piercingly fresh 2010s. In Les Meilleurs Vins de France (France’s leading wine guide) only two Do - maines in the entire Yonne/Chablis area receive a higher rating than Goisot: Vincent Dauvissat and Raveneau. Enough said! The wines of Domaine Goisot are for those open- possible. The vineyards are planted to 10,000 vines per minded drinkers who don’t stress over vineyard names, acre, roughly twice the regional norm. They also em - preferring instead the quality and integrity they find in ploy more than twice the staff members per hectare. the glass. In this case they will find a great deal of both. Goisot has one person per two and a half hectares, These are textural yet racy wines with a rich, stony compared to the six hectare average. The viticulture is complexity that speaks loudly of the chalky soils of the certified biodynamic and yields are kept very low.
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