Dubreuil-Fontaine

2008 Dubreuil-Fontaine Pernand-Vergelesses

By billn on April 08, 2011

Nice and ripe but understated fruit aromas. The palate is the same with lots of clean, steely acidity. Quite Cistercian! For drinking now on a hot sunny day – might get a bit mouth-puckering with time…

2008 Dubreuil-Fontaine Volnay

By billn on April 08, 2011

The aromas focus on delicate red fruits – nice definition. Likewise in the mouth this is a wine of subtlety, delicacy – overall very, very elegant.

2005 Dubreuil-Fontaine Volnay

By billn on April 04, 2011

Dark colour. Concentrated red berry – so much so it’s like a sauce reduction. Clinical, clean lines – very linear but silken. Really good intensity and even an impression of flavour! Despite the note it tasted pretty good. Plenty more left for experimenting with the vintage over the next decade and a half!

2005 Dubreuil-Fontaine Volnay

By billn on February 25, 2010

This is a very good value wine, not only is it well priced for a villages wine, as we now know it also contains a significant amount of 1er cru grapes from Carelle Sous Chapelle, Les Brouillards and Les Lurets. Double decanted an hour before pouring. Aromatically this is a little mute but there are fresh, high-tones of dark red fruits and fainter, high-toned floral aromas – very fine fruit – and the empty glass smells of rose petals. The last vestiges of fat are melting as the acidity starts to come to the fore – very smooth before a hint of tannin in the back-end. Certainly there’s a really nice depth of fruit with a decent length and a residual hint of sweetness, but here’s a tight wine. With the merest hint of a wince, this is drinkable today, but realistically it is already set for a 10 year-plus sleep – I think I’m lucky that I didn’t meet it earlier – otherwise I might have bought 2 cases!

2006 Dubreuil-Fontaine Pernand-Vergelesses Clos Berthet

By on February 28, 2009 #asides

Medium colour. The aromas are sof soft red/black fruit and a floral note – perhaps peony. Fills your mouth quite well and there’s a stricking bitter chocolate aftertaste. Unpresumptuous and very tasty.

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