Bouchard Père et Fils

2000 Bouchard Père et Fils Chablis Montmains

By on June 30, 2009 #asides

Just a little darker than last week’s 02 Perrières, but frankly nothing more than a medium gold – no alarm bells. The nose is deep, a little exotic and not really hinting of oxidation, more about toffee-edged fruit – not exactly Chablis-esque, but way-ahead of the Perrières. In the mouth it’s also better – but not by much, clearly showing a strong oxidative character. Actually quite drinkable – but tastes like a 20+ year-old wine. I’m not sure where the border is with respect to fair/not fair to complain about oxidised 1er cru Chablis – but I know it’s not 7 and a bit years after bottling…

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2000 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune Clos du Roi

By on June 30, 2006 #asides

Medium ruby-red coloured. Medium-sweet notes, hints of strawberry and raspberry and eventually faint smoked bacon. The palate has opened out since its last outing, reasonable intensity and a good length. The acidity is a bit up an down, but this is one 2000 Côte de Beaune that is regaining a little poise.

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2000 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune Clos du Roi

By on March 31, 2006 #asides

Medium ruby-red coloured. Medium-sweet notes, hints of strawberry and raspberry and eventually faint smoked bacon. The palate has opened out since its last outing, reasonable intensity and a good length. The acidity is a bit up an down, but this is one 2000 Côte de Beaune that is regaining a little poise.

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2000 Bouchard Père et Fils Chablis Montmains

By on June 30, 2005 #asides

Pale yellow, indeed still a hind of green. The nose is a little diffuse and sweet. The palate is very fresh – carried along on a wave of tasty acidity, good mouth-watering length. Quite simple but with currently unexpressive concentration. Almost good in itself and very good when taking account of the price.

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2000 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune Grèves Vigne de l'Enfant Jésus

By on February 28, 2005 #asides

Unfortunately the first bottle was corked, hence, the replacement was a little colder. The nose starts tight and high-toned over a begrudging deeper base. Characteristically soft and silky palate, good concentration for a 2000 Beaune – 15% was declassified to achieve this – but still not the same mid-palate punch. If this wine has an extra dimension, it is on the finish. Again the tannins are excellent.

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2000 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune Clos du Roi

By on February 28, 2005 #asides

Medium cherry-red colour. The nose is high-toned and slightly estery, though there’s still reasonable red fruit in the background. Nice density and useful acidity too but not quite the buffering sweet fruit of 18 months ago. Still, the texture is almost good and there’s a little cream on the surprisingly long finish. This was a fantastic little wine on release but the joie de vivre is now gone so I suggest letting them lay down for another few years.

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2000 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune du Château

By on October 31, 2004 #asides

Medium cherry red. The nose is a quite pleasing red fruit number without ever being very interesting. The fruit on the palate is very nice, with reasonable depth too. What’s surprising is that (for a 2000) the structure slightly outweighs the fruit. In this case this in not obvious with food and the wine works very well.

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2000 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune Clos du Roi

By on October 31, 2003 #asides

A little lighter than the Potel wine and still cherry-red coloured. Still has hints of oak on the nose, but mainly a mix of red fruits. Very good acidity – like closing the jaws on a mouthful of cherries – without the stones! Medium-plus and quite drying tannins. This shows in a young way, but was a delight anyway.

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2000 Bouchard Père et Fils Chevalier-Montrachet

By on February 28, 2003 #asides

Bouchard are significantly the largest owners in this vineyard with 2 of the 7.3 hectares. The vineyard which is in Puligny lies just above Montrachet itself but is characterised by much stonier and chalkier soil. The wine had a completely different nose to the Corton-Charlemagne, more refined with an amazing depth of high toned fruits. The density in the mouth was very similar to the C-C but to a completely different effect. Whereas the C-C starts with a bang, the C-M is more sedate but then builds to explosion on the finish. A really fantastic wine.

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