Why not follow a Monts Luisants blanc with a Monts Luisants rouge?
2006 Jean-Claude Boisset, Morey St.Denis 1er Monts Luisants (Blanc)
Medium-plus cherry red. The nose is soft, heavy with cherry-red fruit that’s accented by faint white pepper. Fills your mouth with ripe red fruit that widens into the mid-palate and takes on a slightly savoury element. The acidity is perfectly balanced, lingering in the mouthwatering finish. Understated concentration and intensity. Very primary for sure though accomplished and tasty.
Rebuy – Yes
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jc boisset 2006 morey monts luisants blanc
2006 Jean-Claude Boisset, Morey St.Denis Monts Luisants (Blanc)
One of the rarer bottlings by JCBoisset winemaker Gregory Patriat – a single barrel, 295 bottles. Pale lemon yellow. A nose of creamy oak plus bright pineapple fruit that slowly fades. Well textured and with perfect acidity. The flavours are ripe – not too much so – and tasty, but far from simple, I even imagine (perhaps) a little aniseed and coconut. Slowly fades. A super wine, and a fine buy.
Rebuy – Yes Two bottles drunk already, best re-order…
jadot expands
News here.
marc jomain 2005 puligny 1er les perrières
2005 Jomain, Puligny-Montrachet 1er Les Perrières
Medium-pale lemon yellow colour. Width, and after their Combettes a more obvious higher-toast oak depth, with cream-edged pear fruit. The palate is more lithe and linear with better acidity. Good dimension in the mid-palate and the oak is less jarring and textured, super length here. This also needs 3 or 4 years for the oak to lessen, and the higher toast is not my beau, but there’s real quality here. Already after 2 hours open the high toast is transformed. Not as obviously dense as the Combettes but finer balance.
Rebuy – Yes
jomain 2005 puligny-montrachet 1er les combettes
2005 Jomain, Puligny-Montrachet 1er Les Combettes
A medium lemon yellow colour and a nose of citrus width, though never developing anything other than a little brioche depth. The palate is a mouth-full and initially reasonably textured, but as it slowly slides to the finish there is a little oaky texture and a lot of oak flavour. Despite concentration and intensity I’m currently missing freshness and a 1er cru mid-palate dimension. It’s a little one-dimensional and far from mouth-watering. I wouldn’t open another for 2-3 years to let the oak subside and hopefully unleash the wine within. If the oak just neads time, where will the freshness come from(?)
Rebuy – Maybe
I won’t quite describe it as humble pie, but after 48 hours in the refridgerator, there’s a nice extra creamy dimension on the nose and palate, and that oak has largely melted. I’d still like more acidity but this is at least a ‘maybe’ now…
ponsot 01 morey st.denis 1er clos des monts luisants vv
The thing about a great Aligoté is that (blind) it walks a tightrope between a great red and a great white burgundy – put it in a black tasting glass and see how many people guess wrongly the colour – this 80% old-vine aligoté (the rest is chardonnay, though from 2005 this cuvée is 100% aligoté) is just such a wine, only the lack of tannin might point to a white…
2001 Ponsot, Morey St.Denis 1er Clos des Monts Luisants Vielles Vignes
A relatively deep yellow. A nose of toasted bread and spices and an undertow of creamy fruit. Lovely texture and singing acidity. The flavours straddle the border between sweet and savoury and have super length and intensity. Despite containing about 20% chardonnay, you’d never mistake it for one!
Rebuy – Yes
béjot takes over thomas-moillard – updated
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UPDATED from June 23rd:
I discussed with some of the family; there is (was) a complex holding of many, many family members, so a wide spread of shareholders. A large (majority) block chose to sell, and that block was not represented by those that currently actively manage the company…
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Fair to say that this was a surprise…
Béjot takes over Thomas-Moillard
Owner of the Jean-Baptiste Béjot trading company in Meursault and of an estate of over 300 hectares (Chablis, Hautes-Côtes de Nuits, and Fabrezan in the Corbières region), Vincent Sauvestre has strengthened his position as a key player in Burgundy by acquiring the prestigious Maison Moillard in Nuits-Saint-Georges. He thus ensures the continuity of this estate, owned by the Thomas-Moillard family since 1850. The two companies should in fact complement each other, both in terms of supplies and sales networks in France and abroad, giving them the opportunity to develop in parallel and allowing the new Béjot-Moillard group to become an important player on the market.
The estate, made up of some thirty hectares in Burgundy and 75 hectares in Languedoc, is part of the deal. However, the 35 hectares in Romania, inaugurated in 1996, remain the property of Denis Thomas, former Chairman of Thomas-Moillard.
Source: BIVB
gold for grégory
Grégory Patriat scoops Gold AND the Pinot Noir Trophy for Jean-Claude Boisset with his 2006 Chambolle-Musigny. I happen to think that he made even better wines in 2006! 😉
Chapeau!