Beaune Premier Cru 'Clos des Mouches' Blanc, Domaine du Pavillon, 2020
Beaune Premier Cru 'Clos des Mouches' Blanc, Domaine du Pavillon, 2020
- 75cl
- White Still
- Chardonnay
- Organic
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Optimal drinking window: Now - 2055
Initially smoky nose, pear syrup, salty butter, metallic and stone notes, and white flowers. Fine, but intense attack that fans out, smoky and salty with a core of supple, sweet fruit. Concentrated and rich but bristling with citrussy acidity. This is very compact currently and needs a bit of time to relax in to itself but is all there for future drinking pleasure.
Tom Harrow, Wine Guru (2021)
Maison Albert Bichot has been passed down for 6 generations since 1831 and today it manages individual Domaines rather than housing all sites under one property. Domaine Long-Depaquit in Chablis, Domaine du Pavillon in Pommard and the jewel in the crown Domaine du Clos Frantin in NSG are the organic Domaines.
What the critics say:
"Smoke and chalk are subtle but unmistakeable on the nose, as well as a subtle creaminess. The midpalate is pristine, with beautifully delineated Mirabelle fruit, overtones of corn husk. Wonderful freshness always marks this elevated site and here the freshness makes the wine, gives it contour and poise. Lovely, resonant and long."
"The 2022 Clos des Mouches from Domaine de Pavillon has a lush, almost voluptuous fruit character that runs from green apple to passionfruit and quince paste. The texture is velvety and dense, yet there is enough freshness to give this a salty mineral note at the end. The grapes are from 0.75 hectares at the top of the slope (300 metres) in soils much more suited to white than red; they are pressed as whole clusters and fermented in cask on native yeasts, mainly in used casks, to deliver this delicious wine."
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