Depth of flavour, concentration and great texture again – really layered – delicious, fine style to this fruit. Very good Bourgogne.ĭomaine – Was bottled at the end end of Nov.Ī much more attractive nose, faintly oaked, more depth but top notes of florals too. Concentration, saline intensity, very fine texture. ‘Mainly from purchases, about 15% wood, much less new – but not so long an elevage – for us it’s a wine of pleasure.’ Some are bottled, but many of these reds are racked in preparation for bottling:
Really only one (contract) wine sticks out like a sore thumb – I’m sure that they would have done things differently if they could have! “But for me 2019 looks grand, the best feeling I’ve had in vinifications since the 2010s! A mix of 20.” The wines…Ī great result for BP&F in 2018. They have great potential for saving, we will keep plenty in reserve. Anyway, even those picked at the perfect time really needed no ‘extraction.’ I think wines in the style of 20 – more the latter. If a little late-picked the skins were very spicy and brought very deep colours. On the Maison side, we bought much less in 2018, we didn’t like a lot of the samples. So not that complicated in the vines, but much more so in the cuverie, as lots of wines were taking their time to finish their sugars. Cool macerations to start, fermentations starting spontaneously at around 11☌, but really not looking to extract as the structure was already visible – even with ‘early’ harvesting most of the wines are between 13.5 and 14.5°. This was the longest I remember harvesting at Bouchard. The first picked grapes were Côte de Beaune reds, the first whites about 4 days later – we waited a little for the chardonnay, not starting our harvest until the 3rd of September – we really wanted the maturity in the vines. “30 August until 19 September for the harvest here. Some of the reds were ready very quickly, others took their time – for this we don’t actually have an explanation. The whites from the start had a lot of flowers, a lot of potential bunches – you can be sure that it was tempting to keep all the bunches for all those with low harvests in recent years – but we chose to do some green harvesting and we did no de-leafing to protect the grapes. What was surprising was that the grapes had so many pips – often 3 or 4 in each grape.
A fortunate rainfall came about 23rd August that re-energised the vines in good time for our harvest. “The yield of reds was moderate, certainly below 2017 – 35-38 hl/ha though with 13.5 to 14.5° – with not much malic acidity. The Summer was practically a canicule and dry too – but not too much stress for the vines so we were already ready to start the harvest on the 30th August for reds – the 4th red vintage at Bouchard since (and including) 2003 that started in August. Flowering came rather quickly too, 26-28 May was mid-flowering and we had very good flowering conditions. The vines started to grow relatively late, but then the sun arrived and it was directly warm – the growth was very quick.
By March we’d already had double the amount of rain vs a normal vintage – because of that the vines hardly suffered in 2018 – unlike in 2019. “ 2018 didn’t have a very cold winter, rather one with a lot of rain. More reports for Maison Bouchard Père et Fils Tasted twice in Beaune with Frédéric Weber, November 15 & December 9 2019.
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